Hi all, I met a problem with R-2.10.1 installation on AIX5.3. The error message is as following:
make[3]: Entering directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools' building package 'tools' mkdir ../../../library/tools make[4]: Entering directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools' mkdir ../../../library/tools/R mkdir ../../../library/tools/po make[4]: Leaving directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools' make[4]: Entering directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools' make[5]: Entering directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools/src' xlc_r -q64 -qlanglvl=extc99 -I../../../../include -I/rnd/homes/libiconv/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/libpng/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/libjpeg/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/zlib/AIX/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11 -O -qstrict -c text.c -o text.o xlc_r -q64 -qlanglvl=extc99 -I../../../../include -I/rnd/homes/libiconv/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/libpng/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/libjpeg/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/zlib/AIX/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11 -O -qstrict -c init.c -o init.o xlc_r -q64 -qlanglvl=extc99 -I../../../../include -I/rnd/homes/libiconv/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/libpng/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/libjpeg/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/zlib/AIX/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11 -O -qstrict -c Rmd5.c -o Rmd5.o xlc_r -q64 -qlanglvl=extc99 -I../../../../include -I/rnd/homes/libiconv/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/libpng/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/libjpeg/AIX/include -I/rnd/homes/zlib/AIX/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11 -O -qstrict -c md5.c -o md5.o xlc_r -q64 -qlanglvl=extc99 -Wl,-brtl -Wl,-G -Wl,-bexpall -Wl,-bnoentry -lc -L/rnd/homes/libiconv/AIX/lib -L/rnd/homes/libpng/AIX/lib -L/rnd/homes/libjpeg/AIX/lib -L/rnd/homes/zlib/AIX/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o tools.so text.o init.o Rmd5.o md5.o -lm -L../../../../lib -lR /usr/lib/libintl.a make[6]: Entering directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools/src' make[6]: `Makedeps' is up to date. make[6]: Leaving directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools/src' make[6]: Entering directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools/src' mkdir ../../../../library/tools/libs make[6]: Leaving directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools/src' make[5]: Leaving directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools/src' make[4]: Leaving directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools' Error in read.dcf(file = descfile) : Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed! Calls: makeLazyLoading ... code2LazyLoadDB -> loadNamespace -> parseNamespaceFile -> read.dcf Execution halted make[3]: *** [all] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library/tools' make[2]: *** [R] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src/library' make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/rnd/homes/tmp/R-2.10.1/src' make: *** [R] Error 1 I use IBM compiler with below parameter: OBJECT_MODE=64 LIBICONV=/where/libiconv/installed CC="xlc_r -q64" CFLAGS="-O -qstrict" CXX="xlC_r -q64" CXXFLAGS="-O -qstrict" F77="xlf_r -q64" AR="ar -X64" CPPFLAGS="-I$LIBICONV/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11" LDFLAGS="-L$LIBICONV/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib" --prefix=/my_R_dir \ --enable-R-shlib \ --enable-BLAS-shlib \ --with-x \ --with-readline=no Actually I successfully compiled R-2.8.1 on this machine wiht these parameters and a patch on http://prs.ism.ac.jp/~nakama/AIX/changefiles. Would you mind to tell me what I can do if I want to build R-2.10.1 Thanks, Xu Jin [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel