[Rcpp-devel] Please help in testing what will be Rcpp 1.0.5
Thell Fowler
tbfowler4 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 21:38:36 CEST 2020
Windows 10 Pro 2004 19041.329
WSL Version 2
Linux DESKTOP-K8EN726 4.19.104-microsoft-standard #1 SMP Wed Feb 19
06:37:35 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
Sys.setenv("RunAllRcppTests"="yes")
Sys.setenv("RunVerboseRcppTests"="yes")
tinytest::test_package("Rcpp")
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using: gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-10ubuntu2) 9.3.0
*[1] "All ok, 1541 results"*
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using: Ubuntu clang version
10.0.1-++20200529022935+a634a80615b-1~exp1~20200529003545.39
with Makevars.site containing:
CC = clang
CXX = clang++
CFLAGS = -g -O2
CXXFLAGS = -g -O2
CXX11 = $CXX
CXX14 = $CXX
CXX17 = $CXX
CXX20 = $CXX
CXX1X = $CXX
Halted with:
Running test_stack.R.................. 0 tests /bin/bash: XX: command
not found
make: *** [/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:176: stack.o] Error 127
XX -std=gnu++11 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -DRCPP_USE_UNWIND_PROTECT
-I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include"
-I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/tinytest/cpp" -fpic -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-Do_dS_/r-base-4.0.0=.
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c stack.cpp -o stack.o
Error in Rcpp::sourceCpp("cpp/stack.cpp") :
Error 1 occurred building shared library.
I'm fairly sure the issue is on my setup but not quite sure what it is from
a quick glance.
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> R.version
platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch x86_64
os linux-gnu
system x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major 4
minor 0.0
year 2020
month 04
day 24
svn rev 78286
language R
version.string R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
nickname Arbor Day
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:47 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Below is an ascii version of what I blogged yesterday, proper URL links are
> at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2020/06/15#rcpp_1.0.5_testing
>
> Help in testing, particular on unusual hardware or compiler choices, or
> particularly old releases of OS, compiler, R, ... would be welcome. I am
> quite confident the release will be fine on CRAN and standard systems.
>
> But for use on less standard setups, the time to test is now. If you are a
> user of Rcpp under such circumstance, please help now in testing and
> reporting issues, if any are seen.
>
> Thanks, Dirk
>
>
> Mon, 15 Jun 2020
>
> Rcpp 1.0.5 in two+ weeks: Please help test
>
> rcpp logo
>
> With the current four-month release cycle, the next Rcpp release is due
> in
> July following the 1.0.4 release in March. Just prior to the 1.0.4
> release
> I had asked this:
>
> It would be particularly beneficial if those with “unsual” build
> dependencies tested it as we would increase overall coverage beyond
> what
> I get from testing against 1800+ CRAN packages. BioConductor would
> also
> be welcome.
>
> but only on the rcpp-devel list, and only about a good week prior to the
> release.
>
> I remain rather disappointed and disillusioned about what happened after
> 1.0.4 was released. Two PRs in that release were soon seen to have side
> effects on more ‘marginal’ test systems, precisely what added testing
> could have revealed. An additional issue arose from changes in R’s make
> system, which is harder to anticipate or test. Each and every infelicity
> was fixed within a day or so, and we always make candidate releases
> available—the current Rcpp as of this writing is 1.0.4.12 meaning twelve
> microreleases were made since 1.0.4. And those microreleases are always
> available for normal download and install.packages use via the Rcpp drat
> repository accessible to all. So it was truly troubling to see some,
> especially those with experience in setting up or running testing / ci
> platforms, pretend to be unable to access, install, and provide these
> for
> their own tests, or the tests of their users. It just doesn’t pass a
> basic
> logic test: it takes a single call to install.packages(), or, even more
> easily, a single assignment of an auxiliary repo. All told this was a
> rather sad experience.
>
> So let’s try to not repeat this. If you, or maybe users of a build or ci
> system you maintain, rely on Rcpp, and especially if you do so on
> systems
> outside the standard CRAN grid of three OSs and the triplet of
> “previous,
> current, next” releases of R, then please help by testing. I maitain
> these
> release as a volunteer, unpaid at that, and I simply cannot expand to
> more
> systesm. We take reverse dependency check seriously (and I just run two
> taking about a day each) but if you insist on building on stranger
> hardware or much older releases it will be up to you to ensure Rcpp
> passes. We prep for CRAN, and try our best to pass at CRAN. For nearly a
> dozen years.
>
> To install the current microrelease from the Rcpp drat repository, just
> do
>
> install.packages("Rcpp", repos="https://rcppcore.github.io/drat")
>
> That is all there is to it. You could even add the Rcpp drat repository
> to
> your repository list.
>
> Rcpp has become successful because so many people help with suggestions,
> documentation, and code. It is used by (as of today) 1958 CRAN packages,
> 205 BioConductor packages, and downloaded around a million times per
> month. So if you can, please help now with some more testing.
>
> If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can now sponsor me
> at
> GitHub. For the first year, GitHub will match your contributions.
>
> This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box
> blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit
> settings.
>
> /code/rcpp | permanent
> link
>
>
>
> --
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Sincerely,
Thell
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