On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 22 February 2011 at 17:25, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> | On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> |
> | >
> | > On 22 February 2011 at 16:53, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> | > | i386 = 32-bit (not that is matters) and the CRAN specs are listed in
> "CRAN Package Check Flavors" saying OS X 10.5.8, gcc 4.2.1 (5577 to be
> precise).
> | > | I can only speculate why they are not affected, and I'd say it's
> because they use 10.6 and not 10.5 (consequence of which are different
> compilers as well).
> | >
> | > Is there any expectation of you upgrading these from OS X 10.5 to 10.6?
> | >
> |
> | No, too many users still have 10.5 and 10.6 has dropped ppc support, so we
> don't plan to drop Leopard support anytime soon.
> |
> |
> | > Is there a possibility that you bifurcate the builds into 'current' and
> | > 'older' systems which, IIRC, is done for Windoze as per
> | > http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Rcpp.html
> | >
> | > It is a bit of a mismatch that you pull pre-release versions of R itself
> yet
> | > host them on older OS versions.
> | >
> |
> | No, even R-devel is build with 10.5 target - R version and OS have nothing
> it common. Windows is split only because of 64-bit support which is not
> available in older OSes - that is the only reason why the builds are not on
> XP anymore, they would be otherwise.
> |
> |
> | > Anyway---I will point our OS X user to source installs.
> | >
> |
> | Well, I don't think that helps in any way - the test will still fail for
> all 10.5 users. Why don't you just fix the test? It's up to you, but removing
> Rcpp from CRAN won't help anyone (well, almost ;)).
>
> I CC'ed you on a detailed post I sent to our internal rcpp-core list. It
> smells like a compiler issue to me.
>
> What boolean test for 'am I on OS X 10.5' can you suggest? I will then
> disable the test.
You could use something like
if (Sys.info()['sysname'] != "Darwin" ||
isTRUE(as.integer(gsub("\\..*","",Sys.info()['release'])) < 10L)) { # run the
test ... }
> Maybe Ken or Baptiste can test that and I would submit the
> thusly amended tarball as 0.9.2 so the we all can get back to peace, love and
> apple pie rather than fighting Steve Jobs' insistence on an outdated compiler.
>
> Dirk
>
> |
> | Cheers,
> | Simon
> |
> |
> |
> | > There is no issue AFAICT with Rcpp. I cannot trigger a single warning with
> | > the three g++ versions at my disposal all of which are more recent than
> what
> | > you deploy.
> | >
> | > Thanks for running the builds and the continued help.
> | >
> | > Dirk
> | >
> | > --
> | > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
> | >
> | >
> |
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>
>
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