[Rd] Building R from source always fails on tools:::sysdata2LazyLoadDB

[Martin Morgan]

I build my own R from source on an M1 mac. I have a clean svn checkout in one directory ~/src/R-devel. I switch to ~/bin/R-devel and the first time run

cd ~/bin/R-devel
~/src/R-devel/configure --enable-R-shlib 'CFLAGS=-g -O0' CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/R/arm64/include 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O0'
make -j

At some point in the future I svn update src/R-devel, then

cd ~/bin/R-devel
make -j

This always ends with

installing 'sysdata.rda'
/bin/sh: line 1: 99497 Done                    echo "tools:::sysdata2LazyLoadDB(\"/Users/XXX/src/R-devel/src/library/utils/R/sysdata.rda\",\"../../../library/utils/R\")"
     99498 Killed: 9               | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL LC_ALL=C ../../../bin/R --vanilla --no-echo
make[4]: *** [sysdata] Error 137
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
make: *** [R] Error 1

what am I doing wrong? Is there a graceful way to fix this (my current solution is basically to start over, with `make distclean`)? If I cd into ~/bin/R-devel/src/library/utils I can start an interactive session and reproduce the error

~/bin/R-devel/src/library/utils $   R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL ../../../bin/R --vanilla
> tools:::sysdata2LazyLoadDB("/Users/ma38727/src/R-devel/src/library/utils/R/sysdata.rda","../../../library/utils/R")
zsh: killed     R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL ../../../bin/R --vanilla

or simply

> tools:::sysdata2LazyLoadDB
zsh: killed     R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL LC_ALL=C R_ENABLE_JIT=0 TZ=UTC ../../../bin/R

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