[Rcpp-devel] Issue Installing Rcpp on Solaris

[Tim Jurka]

Thank you Martyn! I'll ask our sysadmins to install SUNWhea for me.

Also, do you know if Rcpp works under solaris-sparc even though it fails the CHECK?

Thank you for your time!
Tim

On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:18 AM, Martyn Plummer wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 16:13 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> Hi Tim,
>> 
>> On 17 October 2011 at 13:39, Tim Jurka wrote:
>> | Hi Rcpp-devel,
>> | 
>> | When installing Rcpp on Solaris ( R2.13.1 Platform: i386-pc-solaris2.10 (32-bit) ) using install.packages, I get the following error:
>> | 
>> | g++ -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I../inst/include/ -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2 -c debugging.cpp -o debugging.o
>> | debugging.cpp:36:22: execinfo.h: No such file or directory
>> | debugging.cpp: In function `SEXPREC* stack_trace(const char*, int)':
>> | debugging.cpp:56: error: `backtrace' was not declared in this scope
>> | debugging.cpp:57: error: `backtrace_symbols' was not declared in this scope
>> | *** Error code 1
>> | make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `debugging.o'
>> | ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rcpp’
>> | 
>> | Has anybody encountered this problem before, and is there a known fix? Thank you in advance for all your help!
>> 
>> Thanks for working on Solaris.  
>> 
>> You may well be the only non-member of R Core who does so --- Prof Ripley
>> usually complains to us when Rcpp breaks there, and we usually just shrug our
>> shoulders and point out that our hands are tied: no Solaris machine either
>> one of us can access, so no (meaningful) way to work on fixes.
>> 
>> But more recently, Martyn Plummer (CC'ed) provided two excellent patches
>> which helped a lot.  With those, we now have Rcpp 0.9.7, and Solaris builds
>> on Prof Ripley's test systems, or at least the x86-based one.  Sparc still
>> fails as per the results page linked from CRAN's results page for Rcpp.
>> 
>> Now, for the backtrace and backtrace_symbols symbols were not declared.
>> Grep'ing for this I found
>> 
>> edd at max:~$ grep -rin backtrace svn/rcpp/pkg/Rcpp/src/*
>> svn/rcpp/pkg/Rcpp/src/debugging.cpp:56:    stack_depth = backtrace(stack_addrs, max_depth);
>> svn/rcpp/pkg/Rcpp/src/debugging.cpp:57:    stack_strings = backtrace_symbols(stack_addrs, stack_depth);
>> svn/rcpp/pkg/Rcpp/src/debugging.cpp:67:    free(stack_strings); // malloc()ed by backtrace_symbols
>> edd at max:~$ 
>> 
>> and indeed, in debugging.cpp I see
>> 
>> #else // ! (defined(WIN32) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) 
>> 
>> which is lacking a Solaris test -- I may need to add    || defined(__SUNPRO_CC)   
>> test as well.
>> 
>> Could you try locally if that works?  Maybe Google can suggest another
>> Solaris variable to test for too?
> 
> Tim is using g++ to compile Rcpp so this is not a problem with the
> Solaris compiler.
> 
> The header that is missing on Tim's system is at /usr/include/execinfo.h
> on my Solaris Express (2.11) system and is provided by the package
> SUNWhea.  In the Package Manager, this appears as "system/headers" under
> System > Core.  So check that this package is installed.
> 
> Martyn
> 
> 
>> Dirk
>> 
> 
> 
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