From garvin at rice.edu  Mon May 24 17:00:52 2004
From: garvin at rice.edu (John Garvin)
Date: Mon May 24 17:01:03 2004
Subject: (PR#6896) Re: [Rd] R with shared library support: 'make check'
	fails with unresolved symbol (PR#6896)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405220931240.4289-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405240951060.15213-100000@hpc3.cs.rice.edu>

That was my first thought, but the same error occurs when configured 
--without-blas as well as --with-blas; also both --with-lapack and 
--without-lapack.

(There are users who ask questions without reading the manual? I'm
shocked! ;-) )

JLG

On Sat, 22 May 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> I am sorry, but that is not a platform the core team has easy access to,
> and no one responded with any changes in the beta-testing period so we can 
> reasonably assume that users on that platform were succeeding.
> 
> First check: you DID read the R-admin manual and follow the advice there?
> This looks like a broken BLAS library and you are advised to use 
> --without-blas ....
> 
> On Wed, 19 May 2004 garvin@cs.rice.edu wrote:
> 
> > Full_Name: John Garvin
> > Version: 1.9.0
> > OS: OSF1 Alpha ev6
> > Submission from: (NULL) (128.42.129.78)
> > 
> > 
> > I configured R 1.9.0 with --enable-R-shlib on Alpha. 'make check' fails with an
> > unresolved symbol. Here's the relevant output:
> > 
> > running code in 'reg-tests-1.R'
> > ...529442:/home/garvin/research/tel/R-alpha/unpatched/R-1.9.0/lib/R/bin/R.bin:
> > /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: call to unresolved symbol from
> > /home/garvin/research/tel/R-alpha/unpatched/R-1.9.0/lib/R/modules/lapack.so
> > (pc=0x3ffbfde345c)
> > 
> > I'm using Compaq cc version V6.4-009 and ld version 5.1.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>


(PR#6896) Re: [Rd] R with shared library support: 'make check' fails with unresolved symbol (PR#6896)
John Garvin