[ Ooops, resending, this time with the promised two additional
  recipients. --Dirk ]

On 9 April 2006 at 07:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| Hi Andreas,
| 
| On 23 April 2006 at 12:07, Andreas Jochens wrote:
| | Package: r-base
| | Version: 2.2.1.svn37668-1
| | Severity: wishlist
| | Tags: patch
| | 
| | 
| | When building 'r-base' on ppc64/unstable, I get the following error:
| | 
| | 
| | gcc     -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fpic 
 -std=gnu99 -O2 -pipe -c vfonts.c -o vfonts.o
| | gfortran  -fpic  -O2 -pipe -c xxxpr.f -o xxxpr.o
| | gcc -shared   -o libR.so Rembedded.o CConverters.o CommandLineArgs.o 
Rdynload.o Renviron.o RNG.o apply.o arithmetic.o apse.o array.o attrib.o base.o 
bind.o builtin.o character.o coerce.o colors.o complex.o connections.o 
context.o cov.o cum.o dcf.o datetime.o debug.o deparse.o deriv.o dotcode.o 
dounzip.o dstruct.o duplicate.o engine.o envir.o errors.o eval.o format.o 
fourier.o gevents.o gram.o gram-ex.o graphics.o identical.o internet.o 
iosupport.o lapack.o list.o localecharset.o logic.o main.o mapply.o match.o 
memory.o model.o names.o objects.o optim.o optimize.o options.o par.o paste.o 
pcre.o platform.o plot.o plot3d.o plotmath.o print.o printarray.o printvector.o 
printutils.o qsort.o random.o regex.o registration.o relop.o rlocale.o 
saveload.o scan.o seq.o serialize.o size.o sort.o source.o split.o sprintf.o 
startup.o subassign.o subscript.o subset.o summary.o sysutils.o unique.o util.o 
version.o vfonts.o xxxpr.o   `ls ../appl/*.o ../nmath/*.o ../unix/*.o  
2>/dev/null`  -lgfortran -lm -lgcc_s      -lreadline  -lpcre -lbz2 -lz -ldl -lm
| | /usr/bin/ld: ../nmath/pbeta.o(.text+0x40): sibling call optimization to 
`bratio' does not allow automatic multiple TOCs; recompile with -mminimal-toc 
or -fno-optimize-sibling-calls, or make `bratio' extern
| | /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
| | collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| | make[4]: *** [libR.so] Error 1
| | make[4]: Leaving directory `/r-base-2.2.1.svn37668/src/main'
| | 
| | 
| | With the attached patch 'r-base' can be compiled on ppc64.
| 
| Very interesting. So that must have been gcc/gfortan/g++ 4.0.3-3, correct ? 
| 
| | diff -urN ../tmp-orig/r-base-2.2.1.svn37668/debian/rules ./debian/rules
| | --- ../tmp-orig/r-base-2.2.1.svn37668/debian/rules  2006-04-09 
08:37:31.000000000 +0000
| | +++ ./debian/rules  2006-04-09 07:03:04.000000000 +0000
| | @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@
| |  cxxcompiler        = g++
| |  optimflags = -O2 -pipe
| |  
| | +ifeq ($(arch),powerpc64)
| | +optimflags += -mminimal-toc
| | +endif
| | +
| |  # edd 04 Sep 2001  default compiler flags, lowered for m68k
| |  #compilerflags     = -O2 
| |  # m68k barks when using g77, and when gcc use -O2
| 
| Thanks for the detailed patch. I have applied it to my debian/rules, and I am
| CCing two of upstream authors as a heads-up.  The option should be generally
| required and not be Debian specific, correct?  Do you know if other
| optimization flags make a difference?  As I recall, pbeta got quite a bit of
| attention for its algorithmic performance and correctness, so it is
| interesting to see the compiler complain.  Could we count on you for some
| minimal testing? 
| 
| Regards, Dirk
|  
| -- 
| Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
|                                                   -- Thomas A. Edison
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                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison

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