possible bug in R's configure check for C++11 features

Kasper,

I haven?t checked in depth, so just to clarify: you *are* setting
CXX11=g++ so it is doing what you asked it to. Since the settings are
inherited upwards, this implies that you are setting both CXX14 and CXX17
to g++. So I?m not quite sure I understand your concern.

Cheers,
Simon

On Sep 3, 2019, at 9:02 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <

kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to compile R under a new setup, and frankly, I have had a lot
of problems, but I think the stuff below points to a possible bug in R's
(custom) configure checks for C++11/14/17, but not for C++98.

This is a report about R from the R-3-6 branch, with a svn checkout from
today, revision r77135.

In my case the compiler name is x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-g++, not

g++. I

denote this in my configure call, using the CC variable. A snippet of the
full configure is

../${SRCDIR}/configure SHELL='/bin/bash' \
  --prefix="${CONDA_PREFIX}/R/${R_VERSION}" \
  CC="x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gcc" \
  CXX="x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-g++" \
  F77="x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gfortran" \
  FC="$F77" \
  CFLAGS="-Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g -O2 -I${CONDA_PREFIX}/include"\
  CXXFLAGS="-Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g -O2 -I${CONDA_PREFIX}/include" \
  F77FLAGS="-Wall -g -O2 -mtune=amdfam10 -I${CONDA_PREFIX}/include" \
  CXX11="g++" \
  CXX11STD="-std=c++11" \
  CXX11FLAGS="-Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g -O2 -I${CONDA_PREFIX}/include" \
  CXX11PICFLAGS="-fPIC" \

Where $CONDA_PREFIX is given in my script.

The output in config.log is given below. Note that in the test for c++98,
it uses the "right" CC, but in the test for c++11 it uses g++. This looks
wrong to me:

configure:28111: checking whether x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-g++

supports

C++98 features with -std=gnu++98
configure:28130: x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-g++  -std=gnu++98 -c -Wall
-mtune=amdfam10 -g -O2
-I/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/include
-fpic -DNDEBUG -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 conftest.cp
p >&5
configure:28130: $? = 0
configure:28139: result: yes
configure:28315: checking whether g++ -std=c++11 supports C++11 features
configure:28607: g++ -std=c++11 -c -Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g -O2
-I/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/include
-fPIC -DNDEBUG -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 conftest.cpp >&5
../R-3.6-src/configure: line 2355: g++: command not found
configure:28607: $? = 127
configure: failed program was:

I have similar issues (wrong CC using when compiling the test program)

with

the test for c++14, whereas the test for c++17 has empty space where the

CC

variable should be?

I can fix this issue by adding a soft link in my PATH from g++ to my
compiler of choice. In this case configure finishes and reports that I

have

full C++17 capabilities. Weirdly, in the output, note that the C++

compiler

is "wrong" again, despite my configure call:

 Source directory:            ../R-3.6-src
 Installation directory:
/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/R/3.6

 C compiler:                  x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gcc  -Wall
-mtune=amdfam10 -g -O2
-I/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/include
 Fortran fixed-form compiler:

/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/bin/x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gfortran

-fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fopenmp -march=nocona -mtune=haswell
-ftree-vectorize -fPIC -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -O2
-ffunction-sections -pipe

 Default C++ compiler:        g++ -std=c++11   -Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g
-O2

-I/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/include

 C++98 compiler:              x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-g++

-std=gnu++98

-Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g -O2
-I/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/include
 C++11 compiler:              g++ -std=c++11   -Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g
-O2

-I/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/include

 C++14 compiler:              g++ -std=gnu++14   -Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g
-O2

-I/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/include

 C++17 compiler:              g++ -std=gnu++17  -Wall -mtune=amdfam10 -g
-O2

-I/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/include

 Fortran free-form compiler:

/jhpce/shared/jhpce/core/conda/miniconda3-4.6.14/envs/svnR-3.6/bin/x86_64-conda_cos6-linux-gnu-gfortran

-fno-optimize-sibling-calls
 Obj-C compiler:



--
Best,
Kasper

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