[R-pkg-devel] gdb availability on r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 12 August 2023 at 18:12, Uwe Ligges wrote:
| On 12.08.2023 15:10, Jamie Lentin wrote:
| > The system call in question is done by the TMB package[2], and not ours 
| > to tinker with:
| > 
| >    cmd <- paste("R --vanilla < ",file," -d gdb --debugger-args=\"-x",
| >                 gdbscript,"\"")
| >    txt <- system(cmd,intern=TRUE,ignore.stdout=FALSE,ignore.stderr=TRUE)
| > 
| > My only vaguely reasonable guess is that gdb isn't available on the host 
| > in question (certainly R will be!). How likely is this? Is it worth 
| > trying to resubmit with the call wrapped with an "if (gdb is on the path)"?
| 
| 
| I guess it is really not available as that system got an update.
| Note that you package does not declare any SystemRequirements. Please do 
| so and mention gdb.
| 
| Wrapping it in "if (gdb is on the path)" seems a good solution.

Seconded esp as some systems may have lldb instead of gdb, or neither.
Adding a simple `if (nzchar(Sys.which("gdb")))` should get you there.

Dirk

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