[R] 64-bit package compilation problems on powerpc

Mark W Kimpel
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:33:40 -0000

I have been working with my sysAdmin to get R-devel up and running with
64-bit compilation on our PowerPC cluster. We've got the base install to
compile with the following flags:

LDFLAGS=-m64 FFLAGS="-m64 -mpowerpc64" FCFLAGS="-m64
-mpowerpc64"
CFLAGS="-m64 -mpowerpc64" ../configure
--prefix='/N/hd03/mkimpel/BigRed/R_HOME/R-devel/R-build'
--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64

About 50% of my package installs are failing with a message similar to
that below:

SpikeofOneArray.o' is incompatible with powerpc:common64 output
make: *** [CALIB.so] Error 1

My sysAdmin suggested removing the -mpowerpc64 bit flag if I encountered
problems, but I though I would run this past our wizards to see if
anyone had experience with this problem before recompiling.

Mark
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