Bug#187537: r-base: FTBFS: hangs in tcltk test (PR#2733)

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:

Thanks for the bug report. I will pass it on to R Core.

In case this makes any difference, I am redirecting the stdout and
stderr of pbuilder into a pipe, while leaving stdin unchanged.

Don't know, it may. But that does not propagate to what happens inside
pbuilder, i.e. in the processes started by it, does it? 

Most of the other build systems work, see
     http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=r-base
The most recent hppa error looks spurious and related to Build-Depends.

I just reproduced the hang on a standard pbuilder setup: after
installing pbuilder and editing MIRRORSITE in /etc/pbuilderrc to your
liking and setting DISTRIBUTION to sid, you should just be able to run
pbuilder create, then "pbuilder build r-base_*.dsc 2>&1|tee
build-log".  This reproduced the bug for me.  (I'm not sure whether
pbuilder is actually required, but I didn't feel like installing the
Build-Depends for r-base in the root filesystem.)

Just to confirm, you are building on m68k, correct?  

No, i386.

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