[R-sig-Fedora] problems compiling packages | 3.3.0 | Linux

2016-06-06 Thread Brian Fallik
Apologies if this email is a top post. I'm not sure how to reply to a
thread if I'm not subscribed.

We recently encountered the same issue that Evan reported on 6/4 and I can
confirm that updated to 3.3.0-5 does address the build failure. Will
3.3.0-5 make it into EPEL? If so, do you have any idea when? The current
package is breaking our build process and I'm wondering if it's worth the
effort to implement a workaround or not.

brian

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Re: [R-sig-Fedora] problems compiling packages | 3.3.0 | Linux

2016-06-06 Thread Evan Cooch

Understood. Thanks for the feedback.

On 6/6/2016 10:04 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:

On 06/06/2016 10:00 AM, Evan Cooch wrote:

Thanks very much. I had more or less reached the same conclusions -- I
was just about to rebuild RPMs for source for zlib, etc, and update
those, and try again, but I've had mixed success in doing that in past.
Its easy enough to roll back to 3.2.5 (which compiles perfectly against
all the CentOS 6.x.x libs), but 3.30 plays nice with a few other things
I work with. Hence my interest in 3.30.

Yeah. I thought about pulling it all into a separate copr repo with
updated packages, but EL5/6 are fragile as is, without me introducing
major API changes to core libraries. Last thing I need in my life is Red
Hat Support angry at me for breaking people's RHEL boxes. :)

This solution was the best option I could come up with from a list of
bad options.

~tom

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Re: [R-sig-Fedora] problems compiling packages | 3.3.0 | Linux

2016-06-06 Thread Tom Callaway
On 06/06/2016 10:00 AM, Evan Cooch wrote:
> Thanks very much. I had more or less reached the same conclusions -- I
> was just about to rebuild RPMs for source for zlib, etc, and update
> those, and try again, but I've had mixed success in doing that in past.
> Its easy enough to roll back to 3.2.5 (which compiles perfectly against
> all the CentOS 6.x.x libs), but 3.30 plays nice with a few other things
> I work with. Hence my interest in 3.30.

Yeah. I thought about pulling it all into a separate copr repo with
updated packages, but EL5/6 are fragile as is, without me introducing
major API changes to core libraries. Last thing I need in my life is Red
Hat Support angry at me for breaking people's RHEL boxes. :)

This solution was the best option I could come up with from a list of
bad options.

~tom

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Re: [R-sig-Fedora] problems compiling packages | 3.3.0 | Linux

2016-06-06 Thread Evan Cooch
Thanks very much. I had more or less reached the same conclusions -- I 
was just about to rebuild RPMs for source for zlib, etc, and update 
those, and try again, but I've had mixed success in doing that in past. 
Its easy enough to roll back to 3.2.5 (which compiles perfectly against 
all the CentOS 6.x.x libs), but 3.30 plays nice with a few other things 
I work with. Hence my interest in 3.30.


I'll definitely try the latest build later this week.

p.s. I should probably upgrade to RH 7 - but thanks for not beating me 
over the head with the obvious. ;-)



On 6/6/2016 9:55 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:

On 06/04/2016 12:10 PM, Evan Cooch wrote:

Updated my R install on my GNU/Linux boxes (running CentOS 6.8) from
3.2.x -> 3.3.0, using latest from epel (i.e., not compiling from
source), and while said upgrade seemed to go fine, am now (post-upgrade)
having all sorts of problems with getting some (but not all) packages to
compile (either during an initial install attempt, or upgrade to
existing packages).

Here's what happened:

In R 3.3.0, R requires much newer versions of zlib, bzip2, lzma/xz.
curl, and pcre than are included in EL5/6. Since I suspected strongly
that people would not like the answer of "upgrade to EL7" (though, to be
fair, you really should seriously consider that), I endeavoured to hack
in bundled copies of those needed libs, compiled statically into R.
Unfortunately, this process had some leftover noise, which resulted in
my giant pile of custom LDFLAGS getting inherited when you build from CRAN.

3.3.0-5 _should_ resolve all of this and "just work". Please test this
build when it finishes and let me know:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=14394314

Thanks,

~tom

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