[R-SIG-Mac] help building a package on mac

[Romain Francois]

On 09/06/2009 04:24 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 6, 2009, at 8:03 AM, Romain Francois wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am developping an R aware version of apache ant, so that you can run
>> R code within an ant build script. This will make the compilation of
>> java source from one package that depends on java code from another
>> package easier, etc ...
>>
>> But I can not build it on the mac platform.
>
> If I see it correctly, you don't need native compilation for each
> architecture, because the resulting code should be platform-indemendent
> (Java-classes).

correct

> Also you're not really building any dynamic library to
> load in R.

Embarrassingly correct

> If both are correct, you can for example use configure
> instead of src/Makevars to build your Java code since this a) guarantees
> that it is run only once b) doesn't trigger the SHLIB building so you
> do't need a fake .so.

Thanks. This is much better than the Makevars trick, too bad this cannot 
be a configure.R script that gets executed by Rscript as R is more 
likely installed than bash.

Am I right in assuming that the bash script can use ${R_HOME}

Romain

> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>> Could someone from this list try to build it.
>>
>> The package is source-controlled on r-forge :
>>
>> $ svn checkout svn://svn.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/orchestra/pkg/ant
>> $ R CMD build ant
>> # R CMD INSTALL ant_0.0-3.tar.gz
>>
>> The log file from r-forge shows partial success:
>> http://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=504&add_log=check_x86_32_mac&pkg=ant&flavor=patched&type=00install.out
>>
>>
>> I think the relevant part of the file is this :
>>
>> ** arch - ppc
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rscript ../exec/ant.R
>> --installer
>> Java for ppc cannot run in this configuration.
>> Please consult documentation.
>> Error in .jinit() : Cannot create Java virtual machine (-1)
>> Calls: .jinit -> .External
>> Execution halted
>> make: *** [mylibs] Error 1
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'ant'
>>
>> and this is probably related to my Makevars file.
>>
>> I don't have myself access to a mac and would appreciate feedback, so
>> that I can release the package on CRAN.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Romain

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