R 3.5.0 fails its regression test suite on Linux/x86_64
On 23 April 2018 at 12:33, Peter Simons wrote:
| Hi, | | I just tried to upgrade Nixpkgs to R 3.5.0, but unfortunately the new | version fails its regression test suite. We configure the build using | the flags "--without-recommended-packages", in case that's relevant. You | can see a complete build log with all relevant information at [1]. | Anyway, the test failures look like this: The flag instructs R not to build new 'recommended packages'; however the tests you run later need them. This release has a binary change so you actually need to rebuild dependent packages -- in other words I think you can expect (some of) these tests to fail until these recommended packages are rebuilt.
From the doc/NEWS file, lines 395 and on:
* The object header layout has been changed to support merging the
ALTREP branch. This requires re-installing packages that use
compiled code.
Dirk
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