[R-pkg-devel] Does dependencies up to date on the pretest CRAN infrastructure

[Serge]

Thank you both very much for your feedback.
I'll submit the package tomorrow and see...

Best,
Serge



Le 13/01/2024 à 15:01, Uwe Ligges a écrit :
> Fascinating, now it worked with the latest winbuilder submission 3 times in a row when I checked it 
> manually. So maybe Ivan was right and there was a very demanding set of other packages compiling at 
> the same time?
> I don't know.
> 
> Serge, Can you somply submit your latest winbuilder upload to CRAN?
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> On 13.01.2024 14:12, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>> I can take a look, but not sure if I get to it before monday.
>> I haven't seen it for any other packages recently.
>>
>> My suspicion is currently a strange mix of cmd.exe and sh.exe calls. But this is a very wild guess.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe
>>
>> On 13.01.2024 14:08, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13.01.2024 10:10, Ivan Krylov via R-package-devel wrote:
>>>> В Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:19:00 +0100
>>>> Serge <Serge.Iovleff using stkpp.org> пишет:
>>>>
>>>>> After somme minor midficiations, I make a try on the winbuilder site.
>>>>> I was able to build the archive with the static library
>>>>> but I get again a Bad address error. You can have a look to
>>>>>
>>>>> https://win-builder.r-project.org/bw47qsMX3HTd/00install.out
>>>>
>>>> I think that Win-Builder is running out of memory. It took some
>>>> experimenting, but I was able to reproduce something like this using
>>>> the following:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Set the swap file in the Windows settings to minimal recommended
>>>> size and disable its automatic growth
>>>>
>>>> 2. Write and run a program that does malloc(LARGE_NUMBER); getchar();
>>>> so that almost all physical memory is allocated
>>>>
>>>> 3. Run gcc -DFOO=`/path/to/Rscript -e 'some script'` & many times
>>>>
>>>> I got a lot of interesting errors, including the "Bad address":
>>>>
>>>> Warnings:
>>>> 1: .getGeneric(f, , package) : internal error -4 in R_decompress1
>>>> 2: package "methods" in options("defaultPackages") was not found
>>>>
>>>> 0 [main] bash (2892) child_copy: cygheap read copy failed,
>>>> 0x0..0x800025420, done 0, windows pid 2892, Win32 error 299
>>>>
>>>> 0 [main] bash (3256) C:\rtools43\usr\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error in
>>>> forked process - MEM_COMMIT failed, Win32 error 1455
>>>>
>>>> -bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>>>
>>>> -bash: R-devel/bin/Rscript.exe: Bad address
>>>
>>> The above indeed happens if not sufficient memory would be available.
>>> Important to know: This includes unused but committed memory which may be a lot.
>>> But I doubt it is the case on winbuilder as the machines has 256GB or more (depending in the 
>>> machine) and additionally 500GB swap space on SSD.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Uwe
>>>
>>>
>>>> Your package is written in C++, but that by itself shouldn't disqualify
>>>> it. On my Linux computer, /usr/bin/time R -e
>>>> 'install.packages("MixAll")' says that the installation takes slightly
>>>> less than a gigabyte of memory ("912516maxresident k"), which is par
>>>> the course for such packages. (My small Rcpp-using package takes
>>>> approximately half a gigabyte by the same metric.)
>>>>
>>>> I'm still not 100% sure (if Win-Builder is running out of memory, why
>>>> are you seeing "Bad address" only and not the rest of the carnage?),
>>>> but I'm not seeing a problem with your package, either. If EFAULT is
>>>> Cygwin's way of saying "I caught a bad pointer in your system call"
>>>> (which, I must stress, is happening inside /bin/sh, not your package
>>>> or even R at all), it's not impossible that Win-Builder is having
>>>> hardware problems. Unfortunately, they take a lot of effort and
>>>> downtime to diagnose and could be hiding anywhere from RAM to the power
>>>> supply.
>>>>
>>>
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