[Rd] any suggestions to deal with 'Argument list too long' for a R CMD check?

[Whit Armstrong]

Thanks for the suggestion.  this package was building successfully
until I split it up into smaller files.

(there are 4489 files in the src directory)

I suspect it's a hard limit in the linux kernel.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060

since R CMD check is generating the actual commands that are passed to
bash, it's a little out of my control (unless I write my own config
script, which I do not want to do).

-Whit



On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mathieu Ribatet <mathieu.ribatet at epfl.ch> wrote:
> Just a suggestion. I googled for your error message you got e.g. "make ...
> error 127" and I got
>
> Yeah, error 127 indicates that make can't find a program that it needs to
> run a command.  My guess would be that she doesn't have g++ installed
> (some distributions package it separately from gcc so it is possible to
> have the c compiler installed but not the c++ compiler)
>
>
>
> Maybe it will be worthwhile to check if you have installed every required
> header files or needed compilers/libraries.
> But as I mentioned, this is just a suggestion.
> Cheers,
> Mathieu
>
> Whit Armstrong a écrit :
>>
>> I love xargs for all kinds of stuff, but I really don't want to write
>> my own configure script.
>>
>> looks like simple solution is to recombine into one big source file
>> rather than splitting each function out.  pita...
>>
>> -Whit
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Jeff Ryan <jeff.a.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Never used, but I seem to recall that this was good for that:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargs
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since, gcc was using upwards of 2gb of ram to compile my package, I
>>>> just split all the functions into individual files.
>>>>
>>>> I guess I'm too clever for myself, because now I get hit with the
>>>> "Argument list too long" error.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to deal with this aside from writing my own configure
>>>> script (which could possibly feed the gcc commands one by one).
>>>>
>>>> -Whit
>>>>
>>>> RHEL 5
>>>> [whit at linuxsvr]$ uname -a
>>>> Linux linuxsvr.kls.corp 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 #1 SMP Wed Nov 5 09:00:19
>>>> EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> from 00install.out:
>>>>
>>>> * Installing *source* package 'RFincad' ...
>>>> ** libs
>>>> g++ -I/usr/local/lib64/R/include  -I/usr/local/include
>>>> -I./RAbstraction -I./R.tslib.backend -I./tslib -fpic  -g -O2 -c
>>>> aaAccrual_days_act252.cpp -o aaAccrual_days_act2\
>>>> 52.o
>>>> make: execvp: g++: Argument list too long
>>>> make: *** [aaAccrual_days_act252.o] Error 127
>>>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RFincad'
>>>> ** Removing
>>>> '/home/whit/dvl/fincad.utils/fincad.generate.R/RFincad.Rcheck/RFincad'
>>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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