[R-pkg-devel] package fails with parallel make - would forcing a serial version work?

[Satyaprakash Nayak]

Thank you Paul and Avi for your response. Indeed, there was an error in
Makefile which could have been contributing to the issues with parallel
make. I have re-submitted after correcting for the mistakes in Makefile,
hopefully it will not throw errors with parallel make now.

Thank you for your advice.
Satyaprakash


On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 2:01 PM Avraham Adler <avraham.adler using gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you want to use .NOTPARRALLEL, that’s considered non-portable as it’s
> GNU-make specific, (I got an email from Dr. Ripley this week) so you have
> to add Gnu Make to the system requirements in the DESCRIPTION or find the
> right sequence of targets to ensure order is maintained even in parallel
> make.
>
> Avi
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 1:29 PM Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> (I didn't see an answer to this, so ...)
>>
>> I think using .NOTPARALLEL will usually get rid of the error but, in my
>> experience, this problem is usually caused by an incorrect or incomplete
>> Makefile. When not done in parallel this missing target is usually
>> getting done first as a side-affect of something that happens before and
>> usually finishes before it is needed. Your luck does not hold in
>> parallel. The better fix is to correct your Makefile.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 1/10/19 4:54 PM, Satyaprakash Nayak wrote:
>> > Dear R package developers
>> >
>> > I published a package on CRAN last year (sundialr) which is now failing
>> > with as it is not make to compile a static library with parallel make.
>> >
>> > In this package, I compile a static library (libsundials_all.a) from
>> source
>> > files of a third party. The specifics of compiling the static library
>> can
>> > be found at -
>> https://github.com/sn248/sundialr/blob/master/src/Makevars
>> >
>> > Now, I got the following error message from CRAN (actually, I was
>> informed
>> > of this before, but had neglected to fix it). Here is the message from
>> one
>> > of the CRAN maintainers ..
>> >
>> >
>> ***************************************************************************************************************************************
>> > This have just failed to install for me with a parallel make:
>> >
>> > g++ -std=gnu++98 -std=gnu++98 -shared
>> > -L/data/blackswan/ripley/extras/lib64 -L/usrlocal/lib64 -o sundialr.so
>> > cvode.o RcppExports.o -L/data/blackswan/ripley/R/R-patched/lib -lRlapack
>> > -L/data/blackswan/ripley/R/R-patched/lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm
>> > -lquadmath -L../inst/ ../inst/libsundials_all.a
>> > g++: error: ../inst/libsundials_all.a: No such file or directory
>> > make[1]: *** [/data/blackswan/ripley/R/R-patched/share/make/shlib.mk:6:
>> > sundialr.so] Error 1
>> >
>> *****************************************************************************************************************************************
>> >
>> > It seems the package fails to generate the static library with the
>> parallel
>> > make. The easiest solution I could think of for this problem was to
>> force a
>> > serial version of make using the .NOTPARALLEL phony command in Makevars
>> and
>> > Makevars.win(https://github.com/sn248/sundialr/blob/master/src/Makevars).
>> I
>> > have made this change and it seems to work on my machine and on testing
>> > with TravisCI and Appveyor(https://github.com/sn248/sundialr).
>> >
>> > However, before I re-submit to CRAN, I wanted to get an opinion as to
>> will
>> > this be enough to get rid of the error with parallel make?
>> >
>> > Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, thank you!
>> > Satyaprakash
>> >
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