On 2 January 2012 at 07:44, Michael Lawrence wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| No, I don't have an Itanium around, unfortunately. Without that, it's tough to
| say. Probably something to do with the GType arithmetic. On a 64 bit system, I
| *think* a GType is a 64 bit integer, whereas in R we only have 52 bits from
| double. On most 64 bit architectures, it seems that the type codes fit in 52
| bits, but maybe not on Itanium. This is just a guess though.
| 
| Luke is working on getting 64 bit ints into R, so this may not be a problem 
for
| much longer. Otherwise, the simplest fix would be to represent the codes as
| strings.

Won't help with this bug, but did you have a chance to look at Romain's
"int64" package (which represents (u)int64_t as two R ints .  Google
sponsored this as they need it large ints for their table lookups.

Dirk

| 
| Thanks,
| Michael
| 
| On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote:
| 
| 
|     On 2 December 2011 at 17:33, Jakub Wilk wrote:
|     | Source: rgtk2
|     | Version: 2.20.19-1
|     | Severity: serious
|     | Justification: fails to build from source
|     | User: [email protected]
|     | Usertags: ia64
| 
|     This is a pretty demanding package.
| 
|     I can see from the detailed logs at
| 
|      https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=rgtk2
| 
|     that it has not built on ia64 since release 2.12.18-1 in Feb 2010.  It may
|     be
|     best to block it on ia64.
| 
|     Any idea, Mike?  I don't presume you have an itanium box around, do you?
| 
|     Dirk
| 
|     |
|     | rgtk2 FTBFS on ia64:
|     | | installing to /build/buildd-rgtk2_2.20.19-1-ia64-_0vVAw/rgtk2-2.20.19/
|     debian/r-cran-rgtk2/usr/lib/R/site-library/RGtk2/libs
|     | | ** R
|     | | ** demo
|     | | ** inst
|     | | ** preparing package for lazy loading
|     | | ** help
|     | | *** installing help indices
|     | | ** building package indices ...
|     | | ** testing if installed package can be loaded
|     | | R session is headless; GTK+ not initialized.
|     | |
|     | |  *** caught segfault ***
|     | | address 0x1000050, cause 'memory not mapped'
|     | |
|     | | Traceback:
|     | |  1: .Call("R_getGTypeAncestors", type, PACKAGE = "RGtk2")
|     | |  2: gTypeGetAncestors(parent)
|     | |  3: gClass("RGtkBuilder", "GtkBuilder", GtkBuilder = list
|     (get_type_from_name = function(self,     name) as.GType(name)))
|     | |  4: .initClasses()
|     | |  5: fun(libname, pkgname)
|     | |  6: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
|     | |  7: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
|     | |  8: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
|     | |  9: tryCatch(fun(libname, pkgname), error = identity)
|     | | 10: runHook(".onLoad", env, package.lib, package)
|     | | 11: loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc))
|     | | 12: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
|     | | 13: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
|     | | 14: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
|     | | 15: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) {    call <- conditionCall(e)
|        if (!is.null(call)) {        if (identical(call[[1L]], quote
|     (doTryCatch)))             call <- sys.call(-4L)        dcall <-
|     deparse(call)[1L]        prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ")    
|        LONG <- 75L        msg <- conditionMessage(e)        sm <-
|     strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1L]]        w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "w") +
|     nchar(sm[1L], type = "w")        if (is.na(w))             w <-
|     14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + nchar(sm[1L],                 type
|     = "b")        if (w > LONG)             prefix <- paste(prefix, "
|     \n  ", sep = "")    }    else prefix <- "Error : "    msg <- paste
|     (prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n", sep = "")    .Internal(seterrmessage
|     (msg[1L]))    if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"),
|             TRUE)) {        cat(msg, file = stderr())      
|      .Internal(printDeferredWarnings())    }    invisible(structure(msg,
|     class = "try-error", condition = e))})
|     | | 16: try({    ns <- loadNamespace(package, c(which.lib.loc, lib.loc))
|        dataPath <- file.path(which.lib.loc, package, "data")    env <-
|     attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, dataPath = dataPath,         deps)})
|     | | 17: library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib, character.only = TRUE,
|     logical.return = TRUE)
|     | | 18: withCallingHandlers(expr, packageStartupMessage = function(c)
|     invokeRestart("muffleMessage"))
|     | | 19: suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(pkg_name, lib.loc = lib,  
|       character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE))
|     | | 20: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
|     | | 21: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
|     | | 22: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
|     | | 23: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) {    call <- conditionCall(e)
|        if (!is.null(call)) {        if (identical(call[[1L]], quote
|     (doTryCatch)))             call <- sys.call(-4L)        dcall <-
|     deparse(call)[1L]        prefix <- paste("Error in", dcall, ": ")    
|        LONG <- 75L        msg <- conditionMessage(e)        sm <-
|     strsplit(msg, "\n")[[1L]]        w <- 14L + nchar(dcall, type = "w") +
|     nchar(sm[1L], type = "w")        if (is.na(w))             w <-
|     14L + nchar(dcall, type = "b") + nchar(sm[1L],                 type
|     = "b")        if (w > LONG)             prefix <- paste(prefix, "
|     \n  ", sep = "")    }    else prefix <- "Error : "    msg <- paste
|     (prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n", sep = "")    .Internal(seterrmessage
|     (msg[1L]))    if (!silent && identical(getOption("show.error.messages"),
|             TRUE)) {        cat(msg, file = stderr())      
|      .Internal(printDeferredWarnings())    }    invisible(structure(msg,
|     class = "try-error", condition = e))})
|     | | 24: try(suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(pkg_name, lib.loc = 
lib,
|         character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE)))
|     | | 25: tools:::.test_load_package("RGtk2", "/build/
|     buildd-rgtk2_2.20.19-1-ia64-_0vVAw/rgtk2-2.20.19/debian/r-cran-rgtk2/usr/
|     lib/R/site-library")
|     | | aborting ...
|     | | Segmentation fault
|     | | ERROR: loading failed
|     |
|     | Full build log:
|     | https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=rgtk2&arch=ia64&ver=
|     2.20.19-1&stamp=1322841271
|     |
|     | --
|     | Jakub Wilk
|     |
|     |
|    
|     --
|     "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is
|     too
|     dark to read." -- Groucho Marx
| 
| 

-- 
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too
dark to read." -- Groucho Marx



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