Is this ppc32 or ppc64? (What does uname -a say?)
If the former, you might need to set CPICFLAGS and FPICFLAGS to -fPIC
(rather than -fpic): please look these up in the R-admin.html file (which
INSTALL points you to).
For ppc64 configure should have found -fPIC.
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Vivek Menon wrote:
> Hello everybody,I am having an error while compiling R-2.5.0 on Linux
> powerpc.
> This is what I see when I do a make:
>
>
> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o grDevices.so chull.o devNull.o
> devPicTeX.o devPS.o devQuartz.o init.o
> ../../../../library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so is unchanged
> make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/home/vivekv/sw_alg/R-2.5.0/src/library/grDevices/src'
>
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/vivekv/sw_alg/R-2.5.0
> /src/library/grDevices/src'
> Warning: unable to load shared library '/home/vivekv/sw_alg/R-2.5.0
> /modules//lapack.so':
> /home/vivekv/sw_alg/R- 2.5.0/modules//lapack.so: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at
> 0x0e65d7e4 for symbol `strlen' out of range
> Error in solve.default(rgb) : lapack routines cannot be loaded
> Error: unable to load R code in package 'grDevices'
> Execution halted
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/vivekv/sw_alg/R-2.5.0
> /src/library/grDevices'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/vivekv/sw_alg/R- 2.5.0/src/library'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vivekv/sw_alg/R-2.5.0/src'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
>
> Please let me know what needs to be done for a successful installation.
> Thanks,
> Vivek
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