I build from svn daily and I have not had this problem. I build in a tree separate from the source tree.
I do think Hin-Tak has a point about clearly specifying that this is how you should do it, in the manual (if that has not already happened). As a casual user, I would expect make clean to clean out any stale files, but perhaps that is not happening. Anyway, seems more to be a possible documentation problem. Kasper On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > On Feb 15, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> --- On Fri, 15/2/13, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: >> >>> On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Hin-Tak >>> Leung wrote: >>> >>>> Somebody else had written separately about this before, >>> and so have I a couple of months ago. I assumed this will be >>> fixed before the next R. Since R 3.0 is supposedly only 6 >>> weeks away, even if it is fixed now it doesn't leave much >>> room for testing. >>>> >>>> Anyway neither Matrix 1.0-11 (current) nor 1.0-9 (sept >>> 2012) build with current R trunk. The last time >>> it did was 1. 0-9 on 3rd october over 4 months ago. So it >>> appears to be due to change inside r trunk in sept or early >>> oct. >>>> >>> >>> No problem here - Matrix 1.0-11 and R-devel build just fine >>> with your flags (tested on Ubuntu 12.10, x86_64). >>> >>> If in doubt, please remove R-devel and checkout a fresh >>> copy. Also FWIW it's a bad practice to build inside the >>> sources - it often causes all sorts of problems when you try >>> to track the sources and stale files are probably what's >>> hitting you. >>> >>> FWIW: This is likely not the problem you're mentioning, but >>> some recent gcc versions break and LTO is also known to >>> cause issues depending on the compiler version, so tread >>> lightly on the cutting edge. >> >> >> Here is a fairly similar post: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Build-from-Source-fails-on-Loading-required-package-Matrix-td4640371.html >> >> The eventual "solution" of that thread seems to be building from tar ball, >> which is quite beside the whole point of building from svn trunk. >> > > And how is that relevant to what I said? Did you follow the advice I sent? If > you did and still have an issue, post *exact* details on what you did, what > system and tools you are using. > > >> FWIW, it is very unproductive to talk about "bad practice" - in a >> hand-waving undocumented/unsubstantiated manner > > Building in sources has two problems: a) the content of the source tree can > change so subsequent builds can be different from the clean one - you cannot > undo that and b) if you update the sources stale files from previous builds > can break the build. > > If solving your problems is "unproductive" then I'm not surprised you have > them for 4 moths now. > > >> - and options that might or might not work. If "--enable-lto" (or any other >> options, or build within the dev directory) does not work reliably, it >> should be either disabled/removed, or documented, or both. > > R cannot test all aspects of a compiler and detect all its bugs. It is *your* > responsibility to provide a working compiler - if you are unwilling to do > that, R cannot do anything about that. > > >> Anyway, it has not been working for over 4 months. >> > > That is not true, obviously, and I have presented a counter-example. It may > not have been working for *you* and it's likely a problem in your setup > (given your lack of cooperation there is no way to tell for sure). We cannot > prevent user errors. We can try to point people in the right direction, but > if they refuse to listen it's on their head. > > >> You have about 6 weeks before this becomes a big problem - "big" as in >> "wide-spread". >> > > You are yet to show that this is a problem in R at all. You failed to follow > the basic instructions in the FAQ. > > Cheers, > Simon > > > >>> Cheers, >>> Simon >>> >>> >>>> >>>> ---------------- >>>> Loading required package: Matrix >>>> Error in namespaceExport(ns, exports) : undefined >>> exports: .M.classEnv >>>> Error : require(Matrix) is not TRUE >>>> ERROR: installing package indices failed >>>> * removing ‘/svn-loc/R/library/Matrix’ >>>> * restoring previous ‘/svn-loc/R/library/Matrix’ >>>> make[2]: *** [Matrix.ts] Error 1 >>>> make[2]: Leaving directory >>> `/svn-loc/R/src/library/Recommended' >>>> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 >>>> make[1]: Leaving directory >>> `/svn-loc/R/src/library/Recommended' >>>> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2 >>>> ---------------- >>>> >>>> If it matters, here is what r trunk built with: >>>> ./configure --enable-memory-profiling >>> --enable-strict-barrier --enable-byte-compiled-packages >>> --with-valgrind-instrumentation=2 --enable-lto >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org >>> mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >>> >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
