[Rd] R 3.4 has broken C++11 support

[Martyn Plummer]

On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 16:32 +0200, Angerer, Philipp wrote:
> Hi Dirk and Martyn,
> 
> > That looks fine. Can you please give a reproducible example of a
> > package
> > that compiles correctly on R 3.3.3 but not with R 3.4.0 or R-devel.
> 
> here you go, it’s pretty much the simplest package possible that
> needs C++11:
> 
> https://github.com/flying-sheep/cxx11test

This works for me (See below). Make sure you are not overwriting some
key variables in a personal Makevars file or a site-wide Makevars.site
file.

[plummerm at D-160182 temp]$ ~/R-devel/r-devel/build/bin/R CMD INSTALL cxx11test_1.0.tar.gz 
* installing to library ‘/home/plummerm/R-devel/r-devel/build/library’
* installing *source* package ‘cxx11test’ ...
** libs
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/home/plummerm/R-devel/r-devel/build/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/home/plummerm/R-devel/r-devel/build/library/Rcpp/include" -I/usr/local/include   -fpic  -g -O2 -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I/home/plummerm/R-devel/r-devel/build/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/home/plummerm/R-devel/r-devel/build/library/Rcpp/include" -I/usr/local/include   -fpic  -g -O2 -c test.cpp -o test.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o cxx11test.so RcppExports.o test.o
installing to /home/plummerm/R-devel/r-devel/build/library/cxx11test/libs
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
No man pages found in package  ‘cxx11test’ 
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (cxx11test)

Martyn

> > Maybe you can share with us how you configure the build of R-devel?
> 
> Sure, in the mail you quoted, I already linked exactly that:
> 
> https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=r-devel#n40
> 
> > ./configure --prefix=/opt/r-devel \
> > 	--libdir=/opt/r-devel/lib \
> > 	--sysconfdir=/etc/R-devel \
> > 	--datarootdir=/opt/r-devel/share \
> > 	  rsharedir=/opt/r-devel/share/R/ \
> > 	  rincludedir=/opt/r-devel/include/R/ \
> > 	  rdocdir=/opt/r-devel/share/doc/R/ \
> > 	--with-x \
> > 	--enable-R-shlib \
> > 	--with-lapack \
> > 	--with-blas \
> > 	F77=gfortran \
> > 	LIBnn=lib
> 
> 
> Thanks and cheers,
> Philipp
>  
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