[Rcpp-devel] Please help in testing what will be Rcpp 1.0.5

William Dunlap wdunlap at tibco.com
Tue Jun 16 21:55:46 CEST 2020


Your Makevar.site is incorrect.  Replace
  CXX11 = $CXX
with
  CXX11 = $(CXX)

$CXX only expands the macro 'C', not 'CXX'.  Since C is not defined $CXX
expands to XX.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:39 PM Thell Fowler <tbfowler4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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")
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> using:  gcc (Ubuntu 9.3.0-10ubuntu2) 9.3.0
> *[1] "All ok, 1541 results"*
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> -------------------------------------------
> > 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
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>
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Thell
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