Dear all, I am currently trying to link R 2.1.0 to the GOTO BLAS 0.99.3 library on a box running Fedora Core 3 , basically following the steps indicated in the R-Admin document:
1: I downloaded the current libgoto.xxx.so from http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kgoto/libraries/libgoto_prescott-32-r0.99-3.so.gz, a version suitable for our XEON machine (Nocona core), unpacked it to /usr/lib and created a symlink libgoto.so pointing to the library. 2: Then, I got ready to re-configure and re-compile R (2.1.0) using the following configure flags: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-R-shlib --enable-shared --with-tcltk --with-blas="-lgoto -lpthread -lm" I did read the R-Admin doc and therefore I am aware of the fact that passing "-lgoto" is supposed to be sufficient, but as a matter of fact configuring with --with-blas="-lgoto" only ends up in a libR.so being linked to the standard libblas.so. config.log reports in this settings that libgoto.xxx.so is missing links to libpthread etc. Therefore, I added the two flags "-lpthread -lm" as indicated at GOTO's website and I got a clean configure run. (Am I concluding correctly that I am using a threaded version of goto blas?) 3: Running make, however, freezed when trying to build "grDevices", without throwing any warning or error messages: [...] ../../../../library/grDevices/libs/grDevices.so is unchanged make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/ssoberni/R-2.1.0/src/library/grDevices/src' make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ssoberni/R-2.1.0/src/library/grDevices/src' [freeze] 4: I then rummaged the R mailing list archives and stumbled over a thread dating from May this year pointing to a similar issue, concerning gcc-3.4 and broken lapack libraries provided by FC3 (see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-May/033117.html). Following these opinions/ findings, I did the following (though I knew that -- in principle -- R is supposed to handle this issue by passing a --ffloat-store flag to the fortran compiler, doesn't it?): * I wanted to remove the FC3 native lapack libraries, and to my surprise, they were not installed at all (no liblapack.so.xxx in /usr/lib). * I set up an older gcc environment, i.e. the last release from the 3.3.x family (3.3.6) and tried to recompile R ending up with the same hang-up. As a last step, I tried to exclude R's internal package explicitly by setting --wihtout-lapack, which did not hava a visible effect on the building process and did not provide a workaround for the hang-up. Please, I highly appreciate any thoughts or hints as my colleagues and I are eager to get into GOTO's universe. //stefan -- Stefan Sobernig Department of Information Systems and New Media Vienna University of Economics Augasse 2-6 A - 1090 Vienna Phone: +43 - 1 - 31336 - 4878 Fax: +43 - 1 - 31336 - 746 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PubKey: http://julia.wu-wien.ac.at/~ssoberni/0x5FC2D3FA.asc <http://julia.wu-wien.ac.at/%7Essoberni/0x5FC2D3FA.asc> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
