[Rd] Latest R-devel build failing on OS X

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Keith O'Hara <keith.ohara at nyu.edu>
>>>>>     on Tue, 24 May 2016 12:47:43 -0400 writes:

    > svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ <target-directory>

yes, indeed. thank you, Keith.

and from then on only

    cd <target-directory>
    svn up

    (which is short for 'svn update').

Another hint: Then do *not* build in the source directory but in
what we called a "build directory"; i.e., something like
(from scratch; including the only-once needed "checkout") :

     svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ R
     cd R
     tools/rsync-recommended
     mkdir ../build-R
     cd ../build-R
     ../R/configure
     make
     make check

and I then never run 'make install', but rather use symbolic
link from
     ..../build-R/bin/R  to something like  ~/bin/R-devel 
i.e.,
     cd ~/bin
     ln -s ..../build-R/bin/R R-devel

Martin

    >> On May 24, 2016, at 12:45 PM, frederik at ofb.net wrote:
    >> 
    >> I agree with Martin's summary of the situation, and with the updated
    >> NEWS entry.
    >> 
    >> I'm not familiar with Subversion, can you tell me the command to use?
    >> 
    >> (I tried "svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R/" but it seems to be
    >> downloading all branches)
    >> 
    >> Frederick
    >> 
    >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:30:11PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
    >>>>>>>> peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
    >>>>>>>> on Tue, 24 May 2016 13:47:27 +0200 writes:
    >>> 
    >>>> I had a regression in config.site so the nightly build didn't. Retrying....
    >>>> Looks like it will build, but the ctl-R, ctl-C bug is still present on OSX (w/Simon's libs). This _was_ fixed for a while, was it not?
    >>> 
    >>> I thought it was never fixed, for readline versions 5.x (or all
    >>> of readline_version < 6.3 ?) because the patch assumed features
    >>> not available, e.g., for Frederik (who got compilation errors
    >>> which I think you confirmed on pre-6 readline).
    >>> 
    >>> I remember you having two different readlines installed on OSX
    >>> but the standard Mac binary (from CRAN, i.e. Simon) would use
    >>> the old readline version ?
    >>> 
    >>> so that whole  resetReadline() solution is now conditionalized inside
    >>> 
    >>> #if defined(RL_READLINE_VERSION) && RL_READLINE_VERSION >= 0x0603
    >>> ...
    >>> ...
    >>> #endif
    >>> 
    >>> and hence the previous code (which is buggy) is used for
    >>> readline versions < 6.3.
    >>> As a consequence the bug is only fixed for readline >= 6.3,
    >>> because the current patch did not compile and hence seemed not
    >>> appropriate for  readline < 6.3 (and hence the above conditionalization).
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>>> (The NEWS entry is also wrong: The issue existed before readline 6.3)
    >>> 
    >>> Aah.. you are right. The API change with 6.3 was for the other, the
    >>> "SIGWINCH" bug.
    >>> 
    >>> Here's a an update proposal for that NEWS entry :
    >>> 
    >>> • The API for readline libraries >= 6.3 had changed such
    >>> terminal window resizes where no longer properly signalled
    >>> (PR#16604).  Also, ‘Ctrl C’ in incremental search behaved
    >>> confusingly in R (unix) consoles (PR#16603) also for older
    >>> readline versions. These have been fixed (for readline >=
    >>> 6.3 only), thanks to patches by Frederick Eaton.
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> Martin
    >>> 
    >>>> -pd
    >>> 
    >>>> On 24 May 2016, at 12:55 , Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
    >>> 
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> Can you (Frederick, Peter, Keith, but ideally others, too)
    >>>>> confirm that you don't see any problems anymore, when building a
    >>>>> version of R-devel from sources that are newer 
    >>>>> than (or equal to)  svn revision 70632 (2016-05-19 10:59:51, see below)?
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> I'm asking because the question is open if these should be
    >>>>> "back ported" to R 3.3.0 patched or not.
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> Best regards,
    >>>>> Martin
    >>>>> 
    >>>>>>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
    >>>>>>>>>> on Thu, 19 May 2016 11:02:48 +0200 writes:
    >>>>> 
    >>>>>>>>>> <frederik at ofb.net>
    >>>>>>>>>> on Wed, 18 May 2016 15:03:31 -0700 writes:
    >>>>> 
    >>>>>>>> Readline <= 6.2 shouldn't require the SIGWINCH patch, so
    >>>>>>>> if older versions have trouble finding rl_resize_terminal
    >>>>>>>> then you could wrap a macro around that part.
    >>>>> 
    >>>>>>> I find python related patches that use
    >>>>> 
    >>>>>>> #ifdef HAVE_RL_RESIZE_TERMINAL
    >>>>> 
    >>>>>>> so they must have configured for that.  We could and
    >>>>>>> probably should do the same, but as a Linux_only guy
    >>>>>>> currently (even basically only one flavor of Linux), I'd
    >>>>>>> appreciate others to produce code for that.
    >>>>> 
>>>>> Actually that was easy (in hindsight.. I took too long!)
>>>>> enough, so I've now committed
    >>>>> 
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> r70632 | maechler | 2016-05-19 10:59:51 +0200 (Thu, 19 May 2016) | 1 line
>>>>> Changed paths:
>>>>> M configure
>>>>> M configure.ac
>>>>> M src/include/config.h.in
>>>>> M src/unix/sys-std.c
    >>>>> 
>>>>> check for rl_resize_terminal() now
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    >>>>> 
>>>>> ... and Keith should even not see the warning anymore
>>>>> (nor Peter the error, when compiling using readline 5.x instead of 6.[23]).
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> 
    >>>>> [...........]
    >>> 
    >>>> -- 
    >>>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
    >>>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
    >>>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
    >>>> Phone: (+45)38153501
    >>>> Office: A 4.23
    >>>> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
    >>>