[Rd] Problems building rpm for R-2.6.2 on Opensuse Factory

[Detlef Steuer]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:30:07 +0000 (GMT)
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> This is proving elusive.  The same build that gave incorrect results last 
> week gave correct results last night (and F8 has had about 50 updates 
> since, including two kernel updates).
> 
> I'd still suggest trying lower levels of optimization, as that was 
> definitely needed with some pre-releases of gcc 4.3.x.

For the record:
CFLAGS="-O" did it this time.

detlef

> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Detlef Steuer wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> make check fails in the way shown below when I try to build
> >> R-2.6.2 on OpenSuSE Factory x86_64. It builds fine on i586.
> >> (and on all older Versions of Opensuse)
> >> 
> >> Is there something I can do?
> >> Are there known problems with some gcc versions?
> >> (Factory uses 4.3.0)
> >
> > Yes.  This happened for me with (vanilla released) gcc 4.3.0 on F8 x86_64 
> > too.  Turning optimization off for both C and Fortran solved it -- I've not 
> > yet had time to track down what you need not to optimize.  I'll try to do 
> > that this evening.
> >
> > As I understand it, CRAN is successfully building R with a Debian x86_64 
> > build of gcc 4.3.0, but several packages are failing in that configuration.
> >
> >> 
> >> Output from ./configure is
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
> >> R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> 
> >> Source directory: .
> >> Installation directory: /usr
> >> 
> >> C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2
> >> Fortran 77 compiler: gfortran -g -O2
> >> 
> >> C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2
> >> Fortran 90/95 compiler: gfortran -g -O2
> >> Obj-C compiler:
> >> 
> >> Interfaces supported: X11, tcltk
> >> External libraries: readline
> >> Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
> >> Options enabled: shared R library, shared BLAS, R profiling
> >> 
> >> Recommended packages: yes
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
> >> 
> >> It may very well be an error on the Opensuse side, but I'm  just not
> >> sure how to identify the true cause of the problem.
> >> Any help appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Detlef
> >> 
> >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Error message:
> >> 
> >> running code in 'lapack.R' ... OK
> >> comparing 'lapack.Rout' to './lapack.Rout.save' ... OK
> >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/R-2.6.2/tests'
> >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/R-2.6.2/tests'
> >> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/R-2.6.2/tests'
> >> running regression tests
> >> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/R-2.6.2/tests'
> >> running code in 'reg-tests-1.R' ... OK
> >> running code in 'reg-tests-2.R' ... OK
> >> comparing 'reg-tests-2.Rout' to './reg-tests-2.Rout.save' ...1318c1318
> >> < 0.1230 -0.7187
> >> ---
> >>> 0.1230 0.3170
> >> 1328c1328
> >> < 0.1230 -0.7187
> >> ---
> >>> 0.1230 0.3170
> >> 1356c1356
> >> < -0.2364 -0.3594
> >> ---
> >>> 0.2814 0.1585
> >> 1366c1366
> >> < 0.62010 -0.55327 -0.15379 0.02127
> >> ---
> >>> 0.49064 -0.68273 -0.02433 0.15074
> >> 1375c1375
> >> < 1.17337 0.06683 -0.15379 0.02127
> >> ---
> >>> 1.17337 -0.19209 -0.02433 0.15074
> >> make[3]: *** [reg-tests-2.Rout] Error 1
> >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/R-2.6.2/tests'
> >> make[2]: *** [test-Reg] Error 2
> >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/R-2.6.2/tests'
> >> make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/R-2.6.2/tests'
> >> make: *** [check] Error 2
> >> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74662 (%build)
> >> 
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> >
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> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595