R-1.7.0 build feedback: NetBSD 1.6 (PR#2837)
On Sat, 3 May 2003 beebe@math.utah.edu wrote:
This is a followup to my report of a SIGSEGV in R-1.7.0 built on NetBSD 1.6. Kurt Hornik responded:
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After some discussions on r-core, two suggestions.
* It might be helpful to know if zlib has found in the OS or compiled
from the sources within R: if the first you could try configure
--without-zlib as it is possible the OS has a modified version.
* You have
R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2003-04-11)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^
and might just have hit a bad day of the r-devel daily snapshot.
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I don't think that the latter is the problem. This version built, validated, and installed on several other platforms. Since my initial bug report for this system, I upgraded the gcc release from 3.2.2 to the latest 3.2.3, so the compilation environment is now a bit different. I tried your suggestion of the --without-zlib configure option, and that produced a working R, which I've installed. There was one *.fail file in the tests directory: reg-tests-1.Rout.fail. It is 2280 lines long, and contains a fair number of "Error xxx" reports.
About 12 are expected. The error will be in the last command line, so only the last few lines of the file are relevant: to wit
## pweibull(large, log=T): stopifnot(pweibull(seq(1,50,len=1001), 2,3, log = TRUE) < 0)
Error: pweibull(seq(1, 50, len = 1001), 2, 3, log = TRUE) < 0 is not TRUE for which you would need to investigate the output of pweibull(seq(1, 50, len = 1001), 2, 3, log = TRUE) and I guess that this is an accuracy problem in the runtime (libc).
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595