[R-SIG-Mac] [Rd] R not running under lldb? (osx)

[Tim Keitt]

Thanks Simon. I'll probably just switch to rocker when needing to debug in
that case.

THK

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 6:51 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using r-project.org>
wrote:

> Tim,
>
> as a security precaution Apple has disabled the ability to debug notarized
> applications*. It means any software distributed on macOS Catalina (and
> they may have retro-actively enabled it for recent updates of Mojave)
> cannot be run in a debugger.
>
> If you want to debug R, you have to use non-release binaries that are not
> notarized and install them by hand, e.g.:
>
> curl -L
> http://mac.r-project.org/high-sierra/R-4.0-branch/x86_64/R-4.0-branch.tar.gz
> | tar fxz - -C /
>
> Of course, this disables the Apple protections and thus is not recommended
> for casual users.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> * - more technical details: Apple requires notarization of any application
> that will be distributed via an Apple installer. Apple no longer allows
> installation of macOS applications that are not notarized. In order to
> obtain notarization, the application has to be fully signed, has to use
> hardened run-time and may not enable debugging entitlements. One part of
> the hardened run-time is that no debugger is allowed to attach to the
> application.
>
>
> > On 22/04/2020, at 8:59 AM, Tim Keitt <tkeitt using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I see:
> >
> > Tims-Air:~ tkeitt$ R --version
> >
> > R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock"
> >
> > Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> >
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
> >
> >
> > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> >
> > You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
> >
> > GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
> >
> > For more information about these matters see
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
> >
> >
> > Tims-Air:~ tkeitt$ R -d lldb
> >
> > (lldb) target create
> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/R"
> >
> > Current executable set to
> > '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/R' (x86_64).
> >
> > (lldb) run --vanilla
> >
> > error: process exited with status -1 (Error 1)
> >
> > Never happened before. Is this a known issue?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > THK
> >
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