[R-SIG-Mac] install.libs error

[peter dalgaard]

Oddly, this doesn't happen here, even though I also tar xj instead of xJ ot the .xz file.

Any chance you two could be picking up a different tar? I am seeing

PeterDaardsiMac:ISwR pd$ which tar
/usr/bin/tar
PeterDaardsiMac:ISwR pd$ tar --version
bsdtar 3.5.3 - libarchive 3.5.3 zlib/1.2.12 liblzma/5.4.3 bz2lib/1.0.8 

and "man tar" claims that j and J options are "c mode only" so presumably ignored and tar gets the compression type from the input itself.

-pd

> On 22 Mar 2025, at 15.53, Sparapani, Rodney via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Naresh:
> 
> I’m seeing the same error message.  And it makes sense
> because the boost tar-ball is compressed with xz and
> not bzip2.  On line 87 of install.R, we have the following…
> if (system(paste("curl", "-sSL", shQuote(u), "|", "tar fxj - -C /")) < 0)
> Little j means bzip2 while big J is xz.  So try substituting…
> if (system(paste("curl", "-sSL", shQuote(u), "|", "tar fxJ - -C /")) < 0)
> 
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> President, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Statistical Association
> Division of Biostatistics, Data Science Institute
> Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus
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> 
> From: R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac-bounces using r-project.org> on behalf of Naresh Gurbuxani <naresh_gurbuxani using hotmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] install.libs error
> Downloading + installing  https://mac.R-project.org/bin/darwin20/x86_64/boost-1.86.0-darwin.20-x86_64.tar.xz $<https://mac.R-project.org/bin/darwin20/x86_64/boost-1.86.0-darwin.20-x86_64.tar.xz%20$>  ...
> bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> tar: Child died with signal 13
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination, passed 8192 returned 0
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