[Rcpp-devel] RcppArmadillo installation issue

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 10 July 2012 at 09:00, Vinh Nguyen wrote:
| Dear list,
| 
| I'm trying to install RcppArmadillo on my school's cluster (R version
| 2012-05-31 r59485).  Was able to install Rcpp fine using
| install.packages.  However, I get the following error for Rcpp:
| 
| > install.packages("RcppArmadillo", lib="~/Rlib", dep=TRUE)
| trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/RcppArmadillo_0.3.2.3.tar.gz'
| Content type 'application/x-tar' length 668838 bytes (653 Kb)
| opened URL
| ==================================================
| downloaded 653 Kb
| 
| * installing *source* package ‘RcppArmadillo’ ...
| ** package ‘RcppArmadillo’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
| ** libs
| mpiCC -I/data/users/vqnguyen/r-devel-installed/lib64/R/include
| -DNDEBUG  -I/data/apps/mpc-0.9/include
| -I"/data/users/vqnguyen/Rlib/Rcpp/include"  -I../inst/include -fpic
| -g -O2  -c RcppArmadillo.cpp -o RcppArmadillo.o
| In file included from ../inst/include/armadillo:141:0,
|                  from ../inst/include/RcppArmadilloForward.h:36,
|                  from ../inst/include/RcppArmadillo.h:25,
|                  from RcppArmadillo.cpp:22:
| ../inst/include/armadillo_bits/Mat_bones.hpp:468:5: internal compiler
| error: in copy_binfo, at cp/tree.c:1250
| Please submit a full bug report,
| with preprocessed source if appropriate.
| See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
| make: *** [RcppArmadillo.o] Error 1
| 
| Is my compiler not compatible with RcppArmadillo?  Let me know your
| thoughts, thanks!

It would help us somewhat if you could let us know which compiler that is, eg
which compiler gets called from the mpiCC wrapper  ;-)

That said, it very much looks like an issue with g++ 4.7.*. I actually made a
small change to make it work at my end (Debian testing, g++-4.7.1).

You may well get by using version 4.6 (eg via CXX=g++-4.6).

Let us know how it goes.

Dirk

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