[Rcpp-devel] g++ flags

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I did read it but his theory must be wrong since it failed as
described before Kevin's fix and worked afterwards.


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 7 May 2014 at 06:47, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> | I am now getting latex errors when I try to install Rcpp from github
>
> We treat GitHub as a development repository, just like R-Forge before it.
>
> To us, it is not a means for general distribution (though we strive to keep
> the master branch sane at all times).  OTOH releases are rigorously tested on
> win-builder and other platforms. So if in doubt, use CRAN.
>
> That said, even GitHub gets continuous integration and builds on every
> commit. Things generally work for the OS X and Linux crowds (for several
> flavours of each). We do turn vignettes off on GitHub to save some processing
> time. Building vignettes requires highlight (the package) and a decent LaTeX.
>
> As nobody in Rcpp Core develops (primarily) on Windows, if something breaks
> you get to keep the pieces -- at least until you, or someone else, fixes it.
>
> Dirk
>
>
> | (see below) but it does now work (without the vignettes) if I use:
> |    github_install("RcppCore/Rcpp", build_vignettes = FALSE)
> | so at least I can proceed without explicitly setting any environment
> | variables now.
> | Thanks.
> |
> | > R.version.string
> | [1] "R version 3.1.0 Patched (2014-05-03 r65519)"
> | >
> | > devtools::install_github("RcppCore/rcpp")
> | Installing github repo rcpp/master from RcppCore
> | Downloading master.zip from https://github.com/RcppCore/rcpp/archive/master.zip
> |
> | <snip>
> |
> | * creating vignettes ...Warning: running command
> | '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-3.1/bin/x64/Rscript" --vanilla --default-packages=
> | -e "tools::buildVignettes(dir = '.', tangle = TRUE)"' had status 1
> |  ERROR
> | Loading required package: inline
> | Loading required package: highlight
> |
> | Attaching package: 'Rcpp'
> |
> | The following object is masked from 'package:inline':
> |
> |     registerPlugin
> |
> | Warning: running command
> | '"C:\PROGRA~2\MIKTEX~1.9\miktex\bin\texi2dvi.exe" --quiet --pdf
> | "Rcpp-FAQ.tex" --max-iterations=20 -I
> | "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-3.1/share/texmf/tex/latex" -I
> | "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-3.1/share/texmf/bibtex/bst"' had status 1
> | Error: running 'texi2dvi' on 'Rcpp-FAQ.tex' failed
> |
> | LaTeX errors:
> | cpp-FAQ.tex:516: pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible
> |  with scalable fonts
> |
> |
> | Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
> | cpp-FAQ.tex:516:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> | Execution halted
> | Error: Command failed (1)
> |
> | On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Kevin Ushey <kevinushey at gmail.com> wrote:
> | > Hi Gabor,
> | >
> | > Looks like it was a bug on our end -- R-exts specifies that USE_CXX1X
> | > should be set to any value; we try to set it to nothing (ie, define it
> | > but leave it empty) but apparently that is not accepted.
> | >
> | > I just pushed a bug fix to GitHub and it works on my Windows VM; can
> | > you give it another shot?
> | >
> | > Thanks,
> | > Kevin
> | >
> | > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
> | > <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> | >> On Windows with R 3.1 I installed the latest Rcpp from github and did
> | >> the following but the compliation gave an error which was was due to
> | >> the C++11 constructs.  If I rerun it but uncomment the Sys.setenv line
> | >> then it works. What do I do to get the cpp11 attribute to work?
> | >>
> | >> library(Rcpp)
> | >> # Sys.setenv("PKG_CXXFLAGS"="-std=c++0x")
> | >> cat('
> | >> // [[Rcpp::plugins("cpp11")]]
> | >> // [[Rcpp::export]]
> | >> int useCpp11() {
> | >>     auto x = 10;
> | >>     return x;
> | >> }
> | >> ', file = "testauto.cpp")
> | >> sourceCpp("testauto.cpp")
> | >>
> | >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> | >>>
> | >>> On 30 April 2014 at 10:05, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | >>> |
> | >>> | On 30 April 2014 at 10:41, JJ Allaire wrote:
> | >>> | | I think that might be overkill (or something that we can do later if users ask
> | >>> | | for it).
> | >>> |
> | >>> | It is a one-liner, and it just sits there to be used, like OpenMP plugin.
> | >>> |
> | >>> | So in that sense it doesn't hurt, and it may yet help those for which both R
> | >>> | < 3.1.0 and Windows are true.
> | >>>
> | >>> Actually, as Gabor points out, where 'R < 3.1.0' and 'g++ < 4.7' which may
> | >>> also be a bunch of servers running older RHEL or Ubuntu LTS.
> | >>>
> | >>> Dirk
> | >>>
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