[Rd] Problem with compiling - Freebsd on AMD64 (PR#7489)

[Kelly Black]

Dear Prof's Ripley and Dalgaard ,

You are correct; this is a compiler error.  I assumed that since it
was an easy fix to the problem by just changing the compiler option to
-O that it could save some headaches for you. As far as the version
goes, it is gcc v. 3.4.2 built for freebsd on the amd64:

black at compaqlaptop$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Configured with: FreeBSD/amd64 system compiler
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728


Finally, the output was with "-g -O2". Using -0 compiles and installs
with no problems.

Sincerely,
Kel

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:01:52 +0000 (GMT), Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> In what sense is this a bug in R?  If changing your compiler optimization
> leads to a segfault, it looks very like a compiler bug.  So what was the
> compiler?
> 
> [R does work using AMD64 on Linux, but only correctly with gcc >= 3.3.3.]
> 
> BTW gdb output with "-g -O2" (the R default) ought to be informative, so
> was this with -O?
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 kjblack at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Full_Name: Kelly Black
> > Version: 2.0.1
> > OS: FreeBSD 5.3 on AMD64
> > Submission from: (NULL) (149.106.32.93)
> >
> >
> > I downloaded R-2.0.1 from the R website, ran configure then make and got
> > an error. I will paste a copy of the output from the makefile below. The
> > problem was when the makefile tried to run the R binary. When I came
> > across the error I reran configure, but this time with the following
> > arguments:
> >
> > ./configure FFLAGS="-g" CFLAGS="-g" CXXFLAGS="-g"
> >
> > This time when I ran make it compiled with no problems. I tried the same thing
> > again only with all of the flags set to "-O" and again it compiled with no
> > problems. When I ran it with the flags set to "-g -O2" it had the same error. A
> > copy of the output from gdb can be found at
> > http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/R-error.txt, but the output isn't very
> > helpful.
> >
> > The system used is a laptop, Compaq Presario (amd64), under FreeBSD 5.3 compiled
> > for the amd64 architecture.
> >
> > Output from make with flags "-O2"
> >
> > black at compaqlaptop$ pwd
> > /tmp/R-2.0.1/src/library/base
> > black at compaqlaptop$ make
> > echo "building package 'base'"
> > building package 'base'
> > /usr/local/bin/bash ../../../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs ../../../library/base/R
> > (f=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/R$$;  cat `LC_COLLATE=C ls ./R/*.R ./R/unix/*.R` >> ${f};
> > /usr/local/bin/bash ../../../tools/move-if-change ${f} all.R)
> > all.R is unchanged
> > /usr/local/bin/bash ../../../tools/copy-if-change all.R
> > ../../../library/base/R/base ${f}
> > ../../../library/base/R/base is unchanged
> > for f in COPYRIGHTS INDEX SOURCES; do  if test -f ./${f}; then
> > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./${f}  ../../../library/base;  fi;  done
> > if test -f DESCRIPTION; then  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 DESCRIPTION
> > ../../../library/base;  (tmp="Built: R 2.0.1; ";  if test -d ./src; then
> > tmp="${tmp}x86_64-unknown-freebsd5.3";  fi;  tmp="${tmp}; `date`; unix";  echo
> > "${tmp}")  >> ../../../library/base/DESCRIPTION;  fi
> > /usr/local/bin/bash ../../../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs
> > ../../../library/base/demo
> > for f in `ls -d ./demo/* | sed -e '/CVS/d' -e '/00Index/d'`; do
> > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ${f} ../../../library/base/demo;  done
> > /usr/local/bin/bash ../../../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs
> > ../../../library/base/man
> > (f=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/R$$;  for rdfile in ./man/*.Rd ./man/unix/*.Rd; do  echo "%
> > --- Source file: ${rdfile} ---";  cat ${rdfile}; echo '\eof';  done >> ${f};
> > /usr/local/bin/bash ../../../tools/move-if-change ${f}
> > ../../../library/base/man/base.Rd)
> > rm -f ../../../library/base/man/base.Rd.gz
> > /usr/bin/gzip ../../../library/base/man/base.Rd
> > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./inst/CITATION ../../../library/base
> > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 all.R ../../../library/base/R/base
> > cat ./makebasedb.R |  R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL LC_COLLATE=C ../../../bin/R
> > --vanilla --slave > /dev/null
> > Floating point exception (core dumped)
> > *** Error code 136
> >
> > Stop in /tmp/R-2.0.1/src/library/base.
> >
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> 
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