Thanks, Gabe and Gabor. In my case it causes a non-zero status and fails the check-devel step.
I’ll definitely fall back to modifying the code but it doesn’t seem like this is exactly the intended behavior of the tests. -Thomas El El lun, 5 oct 2020 a las 19:42, Gabriel Becker <gabembec...@gmail.com> escribió: > Thomas, > > In my experience, as pointed out also by Gabor, its often part of the > devops build process to remove/comment out these tests or otherwise modify > them so that they will pass (if they SHOULD pass) in your environment. > > That said, a quick look at the Makefile does suggest that failing on the > internet tests should be "allowed" and not cause the whole process to > return a non-zero value. > > I don't have time right this second to test this though. Is that not the > behavior you're seeing in practice? Or do the tests hang so the process > never completes, or...? > > Best, > ~G > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 9:49 AM Thomas J. Leeper <thosjlee...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am trying to install R on CentOS (either 7 or 8, behavior is the >> same) in an environment behind a firewall and while I am able to run: >> >> R CMD make check >> >> I am unable to run: >> >> R CMD make check-devel >> >> These latter tests fail. The failure occurs in the internet access >> if() conditional statement in these two tests: >> >> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/tests/internet.R >> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/tests/internet2.R >> >> In my environment, nsl("cran.r-project.org") returns a valid, non-null >> value but subsequent commands in those test files do not successfully >> access the internet. >> >> I'd like to be able to run the full test suite given I am building >> from source. I'm wondering if it's possible to make these conditionals >> more strict so that the conditional tests internet access in a manner >> more similar to how internet access is used in the tests. Would this >> be possible? Or, make tests that require internet access into a >> distinct `check-internet` or similar? >> >> As an additional reference, the same conditional statement appears to >> also be used in these other tests: >> >> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/tests/CRANtools.R >> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/tests/libcurl.R >> >> Thanks, >> -Thomas >> >> Thomas J. Leeper >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > -- Thomas J. Leeper http://www.thomasleeper.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
