[R-pkg-devel] Delaporte: Test Errors on Sun Sparc

[Mark van der Loo]

Avraham,

I can't help you out directly but Jeroen Ooms has a VM image with Solaris &
R available: https://github.com/jeroenooms/solarisvm

best,
Mark



Op zo 5 feb. 2017 om 21:27 schreef Avraham Adler <avraham.adler at gmail.com>:

> I recently changed the back-end compiled code for the Delaporte
> package from C++ to Fortran/C, and after some birthing pains (and a
> lot of patience shown by CRAN), it's fully functional _except_ on
> sparc-sun-solaris2.10 [1]. There, 10 of the 44 tests return errors.
> I've done enough research to know that there may be endian issues
> involved, but I do not know how to address them.
>
> Interestingly, some of the errors look as if they are caused by
> returning the "ones-complement" (if that is a word, meaning returning
> 1 - x instead of x) in some cases. See tests 3, 4, 6, and 7 for
> examples. In the next version (which won't be posted to CRAN for at
> least a month 8-) ), I've expanded the number of tests from 44 to (at
> least) 86 to try to more cleanly isolate possible failures, but I
> don't have access to a sparc-based Sun server, nor is there one on
> Rhub and win-builder, so I cannot test it.
>
> Has anyone seen anything similar or does this ring any bells?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Avi
>
> [1] <
> https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-patched-solaris-sparc/Delaporte-00check.html
> >
>
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