[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp 0.9.10 and cygwin 1.7.12-1

[Dario Buttari]

Thank you Dirk.
I just realized that I forgot to update a comment on a later line of
the debugging.cpp file. The updated patch is below.
Sorry about that, Dario

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--- debugging.cpp_bk    2012-04-22 13:01:55.224641700 -0700
+++ debugging.cpp       2012-04-22 13:03:19.739130300 -0700
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #include <Rcpp.h>

 #if defined(__GNUC__)
-#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) ||
defined(__OpenBSD__)
+#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) ||
defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
 // Simpler version for Windows and *BSD
 SEXP stack_trace( const char* file, int line ){
     Rcpp::List trace = Rcpp::List::create(
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     trace.attr("class") = "Rcpp_stack_trace" ;
     return trace ;
 }
-#else // ! (defined(WIN32) || defined(__FreeBSD__) ||
defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__)
+#else // ! (defined(WIN32) || defined(__FreeBSD__) ||
defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
 #include <execinfo.h>
 #include <cxxabi.h>
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 22 April 2012 at 08:57, Dario Buttari wrote:
> | Rcpp 0.9.10 does not install properly in R 2.14.2-1 under cygwin
> | 1.7.12-1 due to the fact that execinfo.h is not supported under
> | cygwin.
>
> Well there used to be a whole slew of issues, as well as repeated outbursts
> by a well-known R Core developer that Cygwin was not supported...
>
> | Marco Atzeri provided a patch to the code:
> | http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00346.html.
> | I verified that the patch works fine. The patch is below.
> | Would it be possible to incorporate the patch to the next version of Rcpp?
>
> Already done as SVN rev3584, included ChangeLog and NEWS entries as well as a
> THANKS file entry :)
>
> Thanks for that patch. As you may imagine, the *BSD branches got there the
> same way that someone worked it out and told us.
>
> | R is now part of the standard collection of packages supported by
> | Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/packages/) and it would be nice to be able
>
> Nice, I didn't know that.
>
> | to install R packages under Cygwin without the need for manual
> | patching.
>
> Yup. Thanks for the patch submission.
>
> Dirk
>