R does not build out of the box on Ventura

On 25 Oct 2022, at 11:13 , Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

The problem being that devQuartz.c uses a deprecated and now removed interface (ATS).

Building with --without-aqua will work.

I am sure that Simon will fix this, but not in time for 4.2.2 which is in code freeze.

Note this only affects building: as the CRAN binary distributions are built on much older versions of macOS they should continue to build. This is purely a heads up for those building from source that they may want to delay upgrading to Ventura (but someone needed to to find the issue).

For the first time for quite a while, upgrading to Ventura removes the Command Line Tools which need reinstalling.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford

Thanks for the heads-up, Brian.

Older binaries still install and run on Ventura, I hope?

I intend to hold off updating at least the office machine (which builds the tarballs) until 4.3.0, for platform stability. The push for Ventura doesn't seem to have arrived here yet, but probably will come in a few days.

By the way, I have been getting update requests for "Command Line Tools beta n for Xcode 14.1", even though I have no recollection of signing up for beta versions. I'm rather reluctant to install those.

- Peter

On 25 Oct 2022, at 11:13 , Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

The problem being that devQuartz.c uses a deprecated and now removed interface (ATS).

Building with --without-aqua will work.

I am sure that Simon will fix this, but not in time for 4.2.2 which is in code freeze.

Note this only affects building: as the CRAN binary distributions are built on much older versions of macOS they should continue to build. This is purely a heads up for those building from source that they may want to delay upgrading to Ventura (but someone needed to to find the issue).

For the first time for quite a while, upgrading to Ventura removes the Command Line Tools which need reinstalling.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford

The problem being that devQuartz.c uses a deprecated and now removed 
interface (ATS).

Building with --without-aqua will work.

I am sure that Simon will fix this, but not in time for 4.2.2 which is 
in code freeze.

Note this only affects building: as the CRAN binary distributions are 
built on much older versions of macOS they should continue to build. 
This is purely a heads up for those building from source that they may 
want to delay upgrading to Ventura (but someone needed to to find the 
issue).

For the first time for quite a while, upgrading to Ventura removes the 
Command Line Tools which need reinstalling.