I think it probably was an OS-specific quirk in vsnprintf.
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Since no one else has this problem, I suggest you check the integrity of your checkout, or, better, use an R-patched tarball that can easily be verified. This looks very like a mismatched build and test: that is your R build has not be updated to include the patch which is being tested.
A completely clean build from a tarball will ensure that is not the case.
Reporting problems using unreleased compilers (gcc 3.4.4 is not released) isn't going to win you a lot of sympathy: they have been responsible for a large number of (mis-directed) problem reports. If you didn't have the problem on two machines I would be suggesting using released versions of the tools.
FYI, R is tested on released compilers on i686 Linux several times a day, and at least weekly on other common platforms. We would know soon enough if there was an R problem in 'make all check' on those platforms.
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Jake Bowers wrote:
Dear Developers,
I've been playing around with compiling R on my Debian Linux machine (dual Athlon 1.4ghz) and my OS X machine (dual G5). I'm emailing now because reg-tests-1.R fails during make check on my debian machine using gcc-3.4, and on my OS X machine using gcc-3.3. I am using r-patched updated via svn today (Updated to revision 33075.)
Here are some details:
**Using gcc-3.4 on debian: gcc-3.4 (GCC) 3.4.4 20041218 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-6)
wes:/home/temp/R/r-patched/tests# tail reg-tests-1.Rout.fail
## automatic row.names can be number-like, MM, 2004-11-26 d0 <- data.frame(x=1:3, y=pi*2:0) row.names(d0)[3] <- c("01.00") write.table(d0, (tf <- tempfile())) d <- read.table(tf) ## gave error ("duplicate row.names") in 2.0.1 stopifnot(all.equal(d,d0)) unlink(tf)
**Using gcc-3.3 on debian works fine (passes all make check). gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-5)
**Using gcc-3.3 on OS X. gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1671)
More info on my OS X build: ./configure --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack --with-aqua --with-x --with-tcl-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/tkConfig.sh --enable-R-shlib TCLTK_LIBS='-framework Tcl -framework Tk' TCLTK_CPPFLAGS='-I/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.Framework/Headers -I/Library/Frameworks/Tk.Framework/Headers' --with-recommended
g77 is version 3.4 downloaded from hpc.sf.net. GNU Fortran (GCC) 3.4.2
echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/pvm3/lib:/usr/local/pvm3/bin/DARWIN
and, to prevent it from using stuff in the fink directory:
CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include'
Here is the output where make check fails:
running regression tests running code in 'reg-tests-1.R' ...make[3]: *** [reg-tests-1.Rout] Error 1 make[2]: *** [test-Reg] Error 2 make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1 make: *** [check-all] Error 2
sphere:~/TEMP/R/r-patched/tests jwbowers$ tail reg-tests-1.Rout.fail
## automatic row.names can be number-like, MM, 2004-11-26 d0 <- data.frame(x=1:3, y=pi*2:0) row.names(d0)[3] <- c("01.00") write.table(d0, (tf <- tempfile())) d <- read.table(tf) ## gave error ("duplicate row.names") in 2.0.1 stopifnot(all.equal(d,d0)) unlink(tf)
Should I be very concerned about this? I tend to mostly use my OS X machine since the Linux box is about 4 years old.
I hope this information is helpful --- I'm sorry if this is something obvious! (I found some posts from last summer about problems with gcc-3.4, which might explain the problems with gcc-3.4 on linux, but I didn't find anything obvious about gcc-3.3 on the Mac).
Thanks so much for all of your work!!
Best,
Jake
Jake Bowers Assistant Professor Dept of Political Science University of Michigan http://www.umich.edu/~jwbowers
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