[Rcpp-devel] Install failure undefined symbol

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 11 June 2020 at 10:29, Kevin Ushey wrote:
| The most likely cause here is that, even though Rcpp is being compiled
| with gcc 9.2.0, an older version of libstdc++ is being found and used
| at runtime, and that version of the libstdc++ library doesn't provide
| the requested symbol (_ZTVN10__cxxabiv120__si_class_type_infoE).
| 
| Best guess: LD_LIBRARY_PATH should normally be set as an environment
| variable, not a Make variable, so setting this:
| 
| LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/share/apps/gcc/9.2.0/lib:/share/apps/gcc/9.2.0/lib64:/opt/openmpi/lib:/share/apps/update/lib:/opt/python/lib
| 
| in your Makeconf won't help to ensure that the correct version of
| libstdc++ is loaded at runtime.
| 
| (It should also be possible to tell gcc to enforce the usage of an
| alternate C++ standard library, but I can't recall exactly how that's
| done and have thus far failed to re-divine it from a quick skim of the
| gcc documentation.)

Spot on. And while it's been a while, the _particular_ wisdom of that RH
supplied compiler setup also _required_ sourcing of a shell snippet to set
all appropriate values: PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ...

(Astonishing, to say the least, to me that a distribution vendor cannot
integrate the very toolkit it provides so that it is already turned on when
you open a shaell.  But as I said, I suspect the target market are sysadmins
and CTOs not people trying to get work done ...)

Dirk

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