On 22 December 2019 at 16:55, Graham Inggs wrote: | On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 16:10, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: | > On the other hand the ppc64 is one of 'blocking compilation' so it can't | > really segfaults at tests. | | I don't know what that means, but both the r-bioc-iranges and | r-bioc-s4vectors autopkgtests with r-base/3.6.2-1 on ppc64el showed: | | An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ... | Segmentation fault (core dumped)
ppc64 had a 'cannot compile' issue. See eg this email + thread by Tom Callaway https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2019-December/078801.html So that would not be the same issue as these segfaults. I have seen segfaults like this with C++ code, frequently just requiring a recompilation. CRAN and BioC code is generally well enough tested at those repos to not just randomly segfault. But these are not my packages, and I do not use them so I am shooting a little from the hip here. And it looks like iranges depends on s4vectors, so presumably only the latter needs a fix or rebuild? Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
