Hi all,
I am trying to pass -fsigned-char to the compiler when building the
package but failed to do it by adding a src/Makevars file. (see patch
below). What is the standard approach?
Description: Force signed characters
bigmemory passes the tests on CRAN's arm64 platforms, which all run on
MacOS.
In Debian, r-cran-bigmemory fails on arm64 and a lot of other
architectures.
In my understanding, char is signed on macos-arm64 and linux amd64
(x86_64) and
unsigned on linux arm64. This patch passes -fsigned-char to the compiler.
Author: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1064135
Forwarded: https://github.com/kaneplusplus/bigmemory/issues/115
Last-Update: 2025-05-07
--- /dev/null
+++ r-cran-bigmemory-4.6.4/src/Makevars
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CXXFLAGS = -fsigned-char
Cheers,
Charles
