[R-pkg-devel] Fixing travis build fail due to fftwtools fatal error (fftw3.h: No such file or directory)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 9 September 2020 at 23:45, Karim Rahim wrote:
|  sudo apt-get install -y fftw3

Or maybe rather

   sudo apt-get install libfftw3-dev

to get the development headers?

Dirk
 
| Then try again.
| 
| Let me know if it doesn't work.
| 
| Cheers!
| Karim
| 
| On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 10:27 PM Max Turgeon <Max.Turgeon using umanitoba.ca> wrote:
| >
| > Hi Marta,
| >
| > One change I can see from your Git history that seems to match the first failed build on Travis is when you added "Imports: fftwtools" to your DESCRIPTION file. And it makes sense, because if we look at its DESCRIPTION file, we can see that it has fftw3 as a SystemRequirements. In other words, it needs to be installed on Travis before you can run the checks on your package.
| >
| > As for solutions, I can see that Karim wrote a short description of how to install the library on Linux, and there's a link for Mac; all this is on the Github repo: https://github.com/krahim/fftwtools
| >
| > I also noticed that there is an R package wrapping fftw on CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/package=fftw) and I can see that it's a Suggested package for fftwtools. I haven't tried it, but presumably you could install the fftw R package, instead of the fftw3 library.
| >
| > HTH,
| >
| > Max Turgeon
| > Assistant Professor
| > Department of Statistics
| > Department of Computer Science
| > University of Manitoba
| > maxturgeon.ca
| >
| >
| >
| > ________________________________
| > From: R-package-devel <r-package-devel-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Marta Karaś <marta.karass using gmail.com>
| > Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 9:09 PM
| > To: package-develop <r-package-devel using r-project.org>
| > Cc: karim.rahim using queensu.ca <karim.rahim using queensu.ca>
| > Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Fixing travis build fail due to fftwtools fatal error (fftw3.h: No such file or directory)
| >
| > ********************************************************
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| > ********************************************************
| >
| > Dear all,
| >
| > I have been facing travis build fail on linux xenial due to *fftwtools
| > fatal error* (fftw3.h: No such file or directory) with my R package. The
| > error appeared at a random time a few months ago (at a random time := I do
| > not link it with any fftwtools-function related change commit I did) and
| > persists.
| >
| > There is not much I achieved in googling and trying to decipher it, sadly;
| > I am hoping maybe some Community members saw a similar error with their dev
| > work and can suggest a hint/solution?
| >
| > Package GitHub: https://github.com/martakarass/runstats
| > Failed Travis job log:
| > https://travis-ci.com/github/martakarass/runstats/jobs/383037333
| >
| > Error excerpt:
| >
| > * installing *source* package ‘fftwtools’ ...
| > ** package ‘fftwtools’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
| > ** using staged installation
| > ** libs
| > gcc -I"/opt/R/4.0.2/lib/R/include" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include   -fpic
| >  -g -O2  -c fftwtools.c -o fftwtools.o
| > fftwtools.c:28:18: fatal error: fftw3.h: No such file or directory
| > compilation terminated.
| > /opt/R/4.0.2/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:167: recipe for target 'fftwtools.o' failed
| > make: *** [fftwtools.o] Error 1
| > ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘fftwtools’
| > * removing ‘/home/travis/R/Library/fftwtools’
| > Error in i.p(...) :
| >   (converted from warning) installation of package ‘fftwtools’ had non-zero
| > exit status
| > Calls: <Anonymous> ... with_rprofile_user -> with_envvar -> force -> force
| > -> i.p
| > Execution halted
| > The command "Rscript -e 'deps <- remotes::dev_package_deps(dependencies =
| > NA);remotes::install_deps(dependencies = TRUE);if (!all(deps$package %in%
| > installed.packages())) { message("missing: ", paste(setdiff(deps$package,
| > installed.packages()), collapse=", ")); q(status = 1, save = "no")}'"
| > failed and exited with 1 during .
| > Your build has been stopped.
| >
| >
| > Thank you,
| >
| > Marta
| >
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