From dtenenba at fhcrc.org  Mon Dec 19 20:22:26 2011
From: dtenenba at fhcrc.org (Dan Tenenbaum)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:22:26 -0800
Subject: [Rd] error starting R-devel with --arch ppc -- "an unusual
 circumstance has arisen"
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I don't know why, but something is off in the recent R-devel build for ppc. The result is that the installed binary ppc is older than the other ones, so it doesn't have paste0 while the others do.
>
> The really strange thing is that the build logs show success, but the build directory is old and the resulting tar ball is not updated. I'll keep you posted.


It looks like this has been fixed.
Thanks!

Dan


>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
>
>> When I try and start R-devel as follows:
>>
>> R --vanilla --arch ppc
>>
>> I see this, over and over again, ^C does not interrupt it and I have
>> to close the terminal window:
>>
>>> Error in paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n") :
>> ?not a BUILTIN function
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> An unusual circumstance has arisen in the nesting of readline input.
>> Please report using bug.report()
>>> Error in paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n") :
>> ?not a BUILTIN function
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> An unusual circumstance has arisen in the nesting of readline input.
>> Please report using bug.report()
>>
>> I can't get to sessionInfo() but here is sessionInfo() of the same R
>> invoked with no --arch argument:
>>
>> R Under development (unstable) (2011-12-14 r57899)
>> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
>>
>>
>> This seems to be related to the issue I reported here previously:
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-December/062793.html
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
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>>
>



[Rd] error starting R-devel with --arch ppc -- "an unusual circumstance has arisen"
Dan Tenenbaum