From frederik at ofb.net  Wed May 25 00:15:17 2016
From: frederik at ofb.net (frederik at ofb.net)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 15:15:17 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Latest R-devel build failing on OS X
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Thank you, Martin. I linked to your message in a comment here so maybe
other people will know about that useful technique:

http://singmann.org/installing-r-devel-on-linux/#comment-161

However, when I try it, I get an error:

    $ make 
    make[1]: Entering directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/m4'
    make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'R'.
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/m4'
    make[1]: Entering directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/tools'
    make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'R'.
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/tools'
    make[1]: Entering directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/doc'
    /usr/bin/install: cannot stat '../../R-svn/doc/NEWS': No such file or directory
    /usr/bin/install: cannot stat '../../R-svn/doc/NEWS.pdf': No such file or directory
    Makefile:164: recipe for target 'svnonly' failed
    make[1]: *** [svnonly] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/doc'
    Makefile:60: recipe for target 'R' failed
    make: *** [R] Error 1

I configured like this:

    $ cd ../R-svn-build/                                          
    $ ../R-svn/configure --without-recommended-packages --prefix=$HOME/r-svn-test STRIP=true

I guess I can try to debug it myself but thought I should report back
to you. It works when I 'configure' and 'make' in the source
directory.

Cheers,

Frederick



On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 07:20:18PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> Keith O'Hara <keith.ohara at nyu.edu>
> >>>>>     on Tue, 24 May 2016 12:47:43 -0400 writes:
> 
>     > svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ <target-directory>
> 
> yes, indeed. thank you, Keith.
> 
> and from then on only
> 
>     cd <target-directory>
>     svn up
> 
>     (which is short for 'svn update').
> 
> Another hint: Then do *not* build in the source directory but in
> what we called a "build directory"; i.e., something like
> (from scratch; including the only-once needed "checkout") :
> 
>      svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ R
>      cd R
>      tools/rsync-recommended
>      mkdir ../build-R
>      cd ../build-R
>      ../R/configure
>      make
>      make check
> 
> and I then never run 'make install', but rather use symbolic
> link from
>      ..../build-R/bin/R  to something like  ~/bin/R-devel 
> i.e.,
>      cd ~/bin
>      ln -s ..../build-R/bin/R R-devel
> 
> Martin
> 
>     >> On May 24, 2016, at 12:45 PM, frederik at ofb.net wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> I agree with Martin's summary of the situation, and with the updated
>     >> NEWS entry.
>     >> 
>     >> I'm not familiar with Subversion, can you tell me the command to use?
>     >> 
>     >> (I tried "svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R/" but it seems to be
>     >> downloading all branches)
>     >> 
>     >> Frederick
>     >> 
>     >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:30:11PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
>     >>>>>>>> peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
>     >>>>>>>> on Tue, 24 May 2016 13:47:27 +0200 writes:
>     >>> 
>     >>>> I had a regression in config.site so the nightly build didn't. Retrying....
>     >>>> Looks like it will build, but the ctl-R, ctl-C bug is still present on OSX (w/Simon's libs). This _was_ fixed for a while, was it not?
>     >>> 
>     >>> I thought it was never fixed, for readline versions 5.x (or all
>     >>> of readline_version < 6.3 ?) because the patch assumed features
>     >>> not available, e.g., for Frederik (who got compilation errors
>     >>> which I think you confirmed on pre-6 readline).
>     >>> 
>     >>> I remember you having two different readlines installed on OSX
>     >>> but the standard Mac binary (from CRAN, i.e. Simon) would use
>     >>> the old readline version ?
>     >>> 
>     >>> so that whole  resetReadline() solution is now conditionalized inside
>     >>> 
>     >>> #if defined(RL_READLINE_VERSION) && RL_READLINE_VERSION >= 0x0603
>     >>> ...
>     >>> ...
>     >>> #endif
>     >>> 
>     >>> and hence the previous code (which is buggy) is used for
>     >>> readline versions < 6.3.
>     >>> As a consequence the bug is only fixed for readline >= 6.3,
>     >>> because the current patch did not compile and hence seemed not
>     >>> appropriate for  readline < 6.3 (and hence the above conditionalization).
>     >>> 
>     >>> 
>     >>>> (The NEWS entry is also wrong: The issue existed before readline 6.3)
>     >>> 
>     >>> Aah.. you are right. The API change with 6.3 was for the other, the
>     >>> "SIGWINCH" bug.
>     >>> 
>     >>> Here's a an update proposal for that NEWS entry :
>     >>> 
>     >>> ? The API for readline libraries >= 6.3 had changed such
>     >>> terminal window resizes where no longer properly signalled
>     >>> (PR#16604).  Also, ?Ctrl C? in incremental search behaved
>     >>> confusingly in R (unix) consoles (PR#16603) also for older
>     >>> readline versions. These have been fixed (for readline >=
>     >>> 6.3 only), thanks to patches by Frederick Eaton.
>     >>> 
>     >>> 
>     >>> Martin
>     >>> 
>     >>>> -pd
>     >>> 
>     >>>> On 24 May 2016, at 12:55 , Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>     >>> 
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>> Can you (Frederick, Peter, Keith, but ideally others, too)
>     >>>>> confirm that you don't see any problems anymore, when building a
>     >>>>> version of R-devel from sources that are newer 
>     >>>>> than (or equal to)  svn revision 70632 (2016-05-19 10:59:51, see below)?
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>> I'm asking because the question is open if these should be
>     >>>>> "back ported" to R 3.3.0 patched or not.
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>> Best regards,
>     >>>>> Martin
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>>>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>     >>>>>>>>>> on Thu, 19 May 2016 11:02:48 +0200 writes:
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>>>>>>> <frederik at ofb.net>
>     >>>>>>>>>> on Wed, 18 May 2016 15:03:31 -0700 writes:
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>>>>> Readline <= 6.2 shouldn't require the SIGWINCH patch, so
>     >>>>>>>> if older versions have trouble finding rl_resize_terminal
>     >>>>>>>> then you could wrap a macro around that part.
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>>>> I find python related patches that use
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>>>> #ifdef HAVE_RL_RESIZE_TERMINAL
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>>>> so they must have configured for that.  We could and
>     >>>>>>> probably should do the same, but as a Linux_only guy
>     >>>>>>> currently (even basically only one flavor of Linux), I'd
>     >>>>>>> appreciate others to produce code for that.
>     >>>>> 
> >>>>> Actually that was easy (in hindsight.. I took too long!)
> >>>>> enough, so I've now committed
>     >>>>> 
> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>> r70632 | maechler | 2016-05-19 10:59:51 +0200 (Thu, 19 May 2016) | 1 line
> >>>>> Changed paths:
> >>>>> M configure
> >>>>> M configure.ac
> >>>>> M src/include/config.h.in
> >>>>> M src/unix/sys-std.c
>     >>>>> 
> >>>>> check for rl_resize_terminal() now
> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     >>>>> 
> >>>>> ... and Keith should even not see the warning anymore
> >>>>> (nor Peter the error, when compiling using readline 5.x instead of 6.[23]).
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>> 
>     >>>>> [...........]
>     >>> 
>     >>>> -- 
>     >>>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>     >>>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>     >>>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>     >>>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>     >>>> Office: A 4.23
>     >>>> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
>     >>> 
>



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