[R-sig-ME] Failure to load lme4 on Mac

[Douglas Bates]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Myall <daniel.lists at zeno.co.nz> wrote:
> I've attempted to reproduce the error seen on the CRAN on several Mac OS X
> machines and haven't been able to. I'm able to build the CRAN lme4 version
> and the svn versions of lme4 and lme4a without issues.

> There is obviously an interaction with lme4 and the version of xcode
> installed on the CRAN Mac OS build machine that is resulting in the test
> failure. Is there a page that details the setup of the Mac OS X CRAN build
> machine?

> I'm happy to determine what is going on and attempt to resolve this (it will
> mean I don't have to custom compile lme4 for users all the time).

Thank you Daniel.   Simon Urbanek is the person who coordinates the
Mac OS X builds so it might be best if you could share your
experiences on successful building with him and perhaps determine why
the CRAN builds are encountering the error.  I think it unlikely that
it would be due to an out-of-date Xcode compiler set as usually Simon
is one of the people working with the most recent tools.

I believe that Simon, who I have cc'd on this response, may be on
vacation or otherwise away from his email this week.  I suggest that
you pursue the issue with him off-list when he is available again.

>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 16/07/10 10:13 AM, Douglas Bates wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Neither Martin nor I use Mac OS and we can't reproduce the problem on
>>>> other operating systems so we are kind of stuck.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently it is a matter of one of the tests failing but without
>>>> access to a system that exhibits the failure I wouldn't know where to
>>>> start debugging.  Is some kind person using Mac OS were to download
>>>> and test the package and provide some details about the nature of the
>>>> failure we might be able to get started.
>>>>
>
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