[R-SIG-Mac] RGtk2 segfaulting on macOS

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 22/07/2019 03:47, Tom Elliott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> The macOS binaries were recently built for macOS, however they're still not quite right. Runing the following ...

It is likely that the segfault is in the Gtk2 libraries: which OS 
version and which Gtk2 installation?

I have not managed to get Gtk2 to work cleanly on macOS for a long time: 
the Gtk2 libs at https://mac.r-project.org/libs/ are > 6.5 years old. 
Some of the packages pass their tests some of the time: currently 
MixSIAR, Ricetl, fit4NM, gWidgets2RGtk2 and plfMA segfault on my High 
Sierra box.

> library(RGtk2)
> 
> gtkHScaleNewWithRange(0, 5, 1)
> 
> 
> ... leads to a segfault ...
> 
> 
>   *** caught segfault ***
> address 0x0, cause 'memory not mapped'
> 
> Traceback:
>   1: .RGtkCall("S_gtk_hscale_new_with_range", min, max, step, PACKAGE = "RGtk2")
>   2: gtkHScaleNewWithRange(0, 5, 1)
> 
> 
> It's preventing some other packages (notably gWidgets2RGtk2) from building on CRAN, since it's tests are running into the same segfault when running tests (gslider calls gtkHScaleNewWithRange):
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_gWidgets2RGtk2.html


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford