[Bioc-devel] [devteam-bioc] Segfault in Rsamtools when R built with static libz

[Michael Lawrence]

Maybe Gabe could share the linker line. I think (from the man page) as
long as the directory with the static lib comes first with -L, it
should find the static lib, not the shared object.

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Martin Morgan
<martin.morgan at roswellpark.org> wrote:
> Hi Gabe --
>
> On 07/21/2016 12:08 PM, Maintainer wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I build the R installations on our research cluster. Unfortunately we
>> are running an older OS so the system versions of various libraries
>> (libz, bz2, pcre and libcurl, specifically) are not modern enough to
>> build R with.
>>
>> For protection from ABI incompatability when R is interacting with other
>> programs on the system, I have built static versions of those libraries
>> and linked them directly into R. This works fine once a few gotchas are
>> taken care of.
>>
>> After an inordinant amount of work, I have tracked an intermittent
>> segfault we have been getting to Rsamtools, and specifically the version
>> of libz that it grabs during linking.
>>
>> The problem is that Rsamtools is hardcoded to have -lz in it's PKG_LIBS
>> variable by Makevars (I believe this is because the embedded version of
>> samtools needs libz). Because there is no way (that I know of) to take
>> the system libz out of the path, and it is an so, it will ALWAYS be used
>> instead of the static one I want it to use instead. Furthermore, AFAICS
>> there is no way to override the PKG_LIBS construction with an
>> environment variable.
>>
>> Can someone please make Rsamtools' Makevars a bit more polite for those
>> of us stuck in old OSes?
>> Barring that (and until that lands) I am stuck downloading and modifying
>> the package locally, which I really don't like doing.
>
>
> Sorry to be slow at this. I guess this could be done 'elegantly' via
> configure.ac, but that introduces some complexity. I was wondering...
>
> Other packages hard-code -lz, including e.g., rtracklayer,
> VariantAnnotation, Rsubread, and R itself (including grDevices). So I guess
> this is a general problem?
>
> Can you build R with static linkage, and set LDFLAGS to include a 'custom'
> location before the system-wide location?
>
> Martin
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~G
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gabriel Becker, Ph.D
>> Associate Scientist
>> Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
>> Genentech Research
>>
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