Seems your ancient OS (that compiler has a 6-year-old copyright date) has a broken implementation of affinity with CPU_ZERO but not CPU_COUNT.

I've added some checks which should catch this.

On 17/05/2012 13:52, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
I have been building R-devel daily for years.  In the last week or so,
R-devel has failed make check with the error in
   tests/Examples/parallel-Ex.R

The specific error is
pkgname<- "parallel"
source(file.path(R.home("share"), "R", "examples-header.R"))
options(warn = 1)
library('parallel')
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
   unable to load shared object
'/hpscc/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2/build/R/R-devel-build/library/parallel/libs/parallel.so':
   
/hpscc/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2/build/R/R-devel-build/library/parallel/libs/parallel.so:
undefined symbol: CPU_COUNT
Error: package/namespace load failed for ‘parallel’
Execution halted

I am building on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4, using

Hmm, it says .el5: RHEL5 is ancient but RHEL4 is pre-historic!

# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The specifics of the distro is
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
(mockbu...@x86-001.build.bos.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704
(Red Hat 4.1.2-51)) #1 SMP Tue Nov 8 21:37:35 EST 2011

I am happy to provide any additional information

Best,
Kasper

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