[R-pkg-devel] Replicate solaris errors

[Thibault Vatter]

Yes, the non-portable call to log which causes the current build to fail on
solaris has been corrected in a development version. However, the segfault
that we don't understand and were asked to correct was present in the
previous versions (e.g., 0.2.8.1.0 and 0.2.7.1.0), and we believe that it
is likely to reappear if we resubmit with only the non-portable log call
corrected.

This is why, in order to avoid resubmitting with the segfault still there
and having the package removed from CRAN, we would like to be able to
replicate the solaris build.

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 2:17 PM Iñaki Úcar <i.ucar86 using gmail.com> wrote:

> El sáb., 11 ago. 2018 a las 19:30, Thibault Vatter
> (<thibault.vatter using gmail.com>) escribió:
> >
> > Dear package developers,
> >
> > We've recently received an email letting us know that our package
> > rvinecopulib (
> > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rvinecopulib/index.html) would
> be
> > removed from CRAN unless the errors from the solaris build were
> corrected.
> >
> > Note that the package compile and the unit tests pass on the other test
> > platforms from CRAN and even a local R devel build with ASAN / UBSAN
> > sanitizers. On solaris, the package compiles but a segfault is produced
> by
> > one unit test for a reason that we still don't understand.
>
> Are you talking about a new development version that is not still on
> CRAN? Because the current CRAN version fails to install.
>
> Iñaki
>
> >
> > To replicate the issue, I tried to mimic CRAN's solaris config (
> > https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/Rconfig/r-patched-solaris-x86) in a
> > virtual machine following the steps in the gist below (based on
> Jeroen's):
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/tvatter/b2503f03fcd604ff764ffe4b979afcb6
> >
> > Note that the "--with-readline=no" configure option at the end was added
> > because I got "configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and
> > headers/libs are not available" without it.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I then got the "configure: error: a suitable iconv is
> > essential" and could not proceed to build R.
> >
> > I know that I should get GNU iconv as specified in the installation
> manual,
> > hence the "/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i libiconv_dev" in the gist above. I
> > verified that iconv is in /opt/csw/lib as expected and I thought that
> > adding /opt/csw/lib to R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH as suggested in the manual would
> > then do the trick, but it does not seem to be the case.
> >
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1) What did I miss or do wrong?
> >
> > 2) Anyone found a way to replicate solaris CRAN builds to test packages?
> I
> > tried to use https://builder.r-hub.io/, but some of my package's
> > dependencies fail to install because of udunits2 is missing on their
> system
> > if I recall correctly.
> >
> > Thibault
> >
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