On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 08:59:13 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Hi Seb, > > On 8 January 2016 at 14:54, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > | Package: r-base-core > | Version: 3.2.3-1 > | Severity: grave > > That will deprive a couple (ten or hundred) thousand users of R because ... > > | Control: affects -1 r-cran-ncdf4 r-cran-afex r-cran-coin r-cran-scales > r-cran-ape r-cran-rms r-cran-timeseries r-cran-dosefinding r-cran-maps > r-cran-statmod > | > | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > | Hash: SHA256 > | > | Hi Dirk, > | > | R crashes at startup with an "Illegal instruction" (tested on minkus, the > mips > | porterbox): > | > | (sid_mips-dchroot)sebastien@minkus:~$ R > | Illegal instruction > | > | Here is a backtrace: > | > | #0 machar (ibeta=0x77fc3bd0 <R_AccuracyInfo>, it=0x77fc3bd4 > <R_AccuracyInfo+4>, irnd=0x77fc3bd8 <R_AccuracyInfo+8>, ngrd=0x77fc3bdc > <R_AccuracyInfo+12>, machep=0x77fc3be0 <R_AccuracyInfo+16>, > | negep=0x77fc3be4 <R_AccuracyInfo+20>, iexp=0x77fc3be8 > <R_AccuracyInfo+24>, minexp=0x77fc3bec <R_AccuracyInfo+28>, maxexp=0x77fc3bf0 > <R_AccuracyInfo+32>, eps=0x77fc3bf8 <R_AccuracyInfo+40>, > | epsneg=0x77fc3c00 <R_AccuracyInfo+48>, xmin=0x77fc3c08 > <R_AccuracyInfo+56>, xmax=0x77fc3c10 <R_AccuracyInfo+64>) at platform.c:3199 > | #1 0x77d1a570 in Init_R_Machine (rho=0x43054c) at platform.c:61 > | #2 0x77d1b48c in Init_R_Variables (rho=0x43054c) at platform.c:198 > | #3 0x77cf0198 in setup_Rmainloop () at main.c:840 > | #4 0x77cf0dfc in Rf_mainloop () at main.c:1012 > | #5 0x00400a00 in main (ac=1, av=0x7fff6574) at Rmain.c:29 > | #6 0x779b9f58 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/mips-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 > | #7 0x00400870 in _ftext () > | > | Incidentally, all CRAN packages FTBFS on mips (see above for the list of > | currently affected packages). > > ... neither I not R Core have mips access, as this may become > release-critical and block R. :-/ > This is untrue. You have access to debian's mips porterbox.
Cheers, Julien -- Julien Cristau <julien.cris...@logilab.fr> Logilab http://www.logilab.fr/ Informatique scientifique & gestion de connaissances
