[Rd] Build failure with this morning's R-alpha

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 4 April 2006 at 07:12, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| Note that libR.so was itself linked against -lm, so should resolve its 
| dependencies there.  The front end has never been linked against -lm, nor
| do I see that anything should have changed for a long time in the 
| front-end.

Thanks for confirming -- that is what I was suspecting, little or no change
at R's side of this. The problem may be with Debian's "pbuilder" chroot that
sets up the build environment. I will contact its author and maintainer.

| I was able to build a shared-library version of the current svn 36743 (I 
| was unable to identify which 'last night' this was, and 
| 'r-base-2.2.1.svn37626' seemed contradictory) from scratch on FC3 on ix86 
| and x86_64 (and I built a slightly earlier version on Solaris yesterday).

These are the nightly (in Copenhaguen time) builds provided via 
	
	http://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease

and I just confirmed the problem with today's svn.37642.

Dirk

| 
| 
| On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| >
| > Trying to build a Debian snapshot of R-alpha based on last night's tarball,
| > it fails with what looks like a missing -lm linking directive:
| >
| > [...]
| > gcc     -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fpic  -O2  -c version.c -o version.o
| > gcc     -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fpic  -O2  -c vfonts.c -o vfonts.o
| > g77  -fpic  -O2  -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` -!
|  lb!
| > las-3 -L/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/3.4.6 -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s      -lreadline  -lpcre -lbz2 -lz -ldl -lm
| > make[5]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/src/main'
| > mkdir -p -- /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/bin/exec
| > mkdir -p -- /tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/lib
| > make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/src/main'
| > make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/src/main'
| > make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/src/main'
| > gcc     -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fpic  -O2  -c Rmain.c -o Rmain.o
| > gcc -Wl,--export-dynamic  -o R.bin Rmain.o  -L../../lib -lR
| > ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `isfinite'
| > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| > make[4]: *** [R.bin] Error 1
| > make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/src/main'
| > make[3]: *** [R] Error 2
| > make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/src/main'
| > make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
| > make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626/src'
| > make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
| > make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/r-base-2.2.1.svn37626'
| > make: *** [make-arch-stamp] Error 2
| > pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package
| >
| > I checked the svn logs, as it doesn't looks like this was addressed since the
| > tarball was rolled.  Am I the only one to have this happen?
| >
| > Dirk
| >
| >
| 
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