> On Dec 31, 2015, at 3:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 30/12/2015 9:40 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > [lots deleted] >> So I guess the question is ... why is the build process for the >> Mavericks/Yosemite/El Capitan machines still failing to produce a current >> (working) version of rgl? > > I think it does probably does produce a working version, but it fails the > tests on that particular machine. > > I believe the problem is that the CRAN test machine uses an unusual X server. > I've asked for details on a couple of occasions so I could reproduce the > error, but received no response. I don't know if the server is buggy or rgl > just fails to do some checks that are unnecessary on other servers. > > The latest error is occurring in rgl.pixels, and the underlying C++ code > there is a little sloppy with type conversions (e.g. it assumes GL_FLOAT is > float, which is not necessarily true), and is probably also sloppy with > run-time checks. I don't think the type sloppiness could be a cause of the > error (I think it would fail for all servers if so), and I can't spot the > run-time sloppiness. >
Is there any way to put a ##Not run ..... ### "bracket" around that code? > Duncan Murdoch David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
