[Rd] Cannot make 3 different R installations for 3 different valgrind-instrumentation levels

[Simon Urbanek]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:31 PM, pleydell at supagro.inra.fr wrote:

> "R Installation and Administration", section 2.5 "Sub-architectures"  
> describes
> calling specific builds of R using the call "R --arch=name". I am  
> trying to
> build and install three versions of R-2.9.1, each configured with a  
> different
> valgrind-instrumentation level ("Writing R Extensions", section  
> 4.3.2 "Using
> valgrind"). My goal is to be able to choose which install I launch  
> so that I
> can
> choose among the valgrind levels with commands such as
>
> R --arch=valgrind0 -d valgrind --vanilla < myPkg.R
> or
> R --arch=valgrind1 -d valgrind --vanilla < myPkg.R
> or
> R --arch=valgrind2 -d valgrind --vanilla < myPkg.R
>
> R-2.9.1.tar.gz is unzipped to /usr/local/src/R-2.9.1 and I have  
> tried executing
> (several variations of) the following code from that directory
>
> sudo ./configure --enable-memory-profiling --with-valgrind- 
> instrumentation=2
> r_arch=vg2 --with-recommended-packages=no
> sudo make
> sudo make install rhome=/usr/local/lib/R-2.9.1_vg2
> sudo ./configure --enable-memory-profiling --with-valgrind- 
> instrumentation=1
> r_arch=vg1 --with-recommended-packages=no
> sudo make
> sudo make install rhome=/usr/local/lib/R-2.9.1_vg1
> sudo ./configure --enable-memory-profiling --with-valgrind- 
> instrumentation=0
> r_arch=vg0 --with-recommended-packages=no
> sudo make
> sudo make install rhome=/usr/local/lib/R-2.9.1_vg0
>
> using this approach the second "sudo make" results in error.
>

You're confusing rhome and arch - the above makes no sense. Let rhome  
alone and you should be fine. (And make sure you're not building in  
the source tree - you should be using something like mkdir obj_vg0 &&  
cd obj_vg0 && ../R-2.9.1/configure ...)

Cheers,
Simon


> I also tried installing from three seperate copies of the R-2.9.1  
> directory i.e.
> from
>
> /usr/local/src/R-2.9.1_valgrind0
> /usr/local/src/R-2.9.1_valgrind1
> /usr/local/src/R-2.9.1_valgrind2
>
> with this set up the above code runs without error and the shell  
> command "R
> --arch=valgrind0" works (level zero being the level used in the most  
> recent
> install) but the shell commands "R --arch=valgrind1" and "R -- 
> arch=valgrind2"
> result in error messages.
>
> I can't figure out how to get this working, although it seems  
> perfectly natural
> to want to do this. It would be great if someone could point me in  
> the right
> direction and perhaps a workable example could be added to the "R  
> Installation
> and Administration" document too.
>
> I am running a recent install of Ubuntu (Jaunty) on a 32 bit laptop  
> with all
> previous R installations removed / uninstalled.
>
> thanks
> David
>
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