Re: [Rd] R compilation on old(ish) CentOS

2021-05-01 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 03:41, Henrik Bengtsson
 wrote:
>
> Ben, it's most like what Peter says.  I can confirm it works; I just
> installed https://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-latest.tar.gz
> on an up-to-date CentOS 7.9.2009 system using the vanilla gcc (GCC)
> 4.8.5 that comes with that version and R compiles just fine and it
> passes 'make check' too.

It's not that you can't compile R with gcc 4.8.5, it's that you'll
have a hard time installing many packages. And that's why EPEL 7 has R
3.6 and cannot be updated to 4.

> Since R is trying to move toward C++14 support by default, I agree
> with Iñaki, you might wanr to build and run R with a newer version of
> gcc.  gcc 4.8.5 will only give you C++11 support.  RedHat's Software
> Collections (SCL) devtoolset:s is the easiest way to do this. I've
> done this too and can confirm that gcc 7.3.1 that comes with SCL
> devtoolset/7 is sufficient to get C++14 support.  I'm sharing my
> installation with lots of users, so I'm make it all transparent to the
> end-user with environment modules, i.e. 'module load r/4.1.0' is all
> the user needs to know.

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Re: [Rd] R compilation on old(ish) CentOS

2021-05-01 Thread Ben Bolker
  Thanks -- yes, I can confirm that it installs OK after erasing and 
checking out SVN from scratch.


On 4/30/21 9:40 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

Ben, it's most like what Peter says.  I can confirm it works; I just
installed https://cran.r-project.org/src/base-prerelease/R-latest.tar.gz
on an up-to-date CentOS 7.9.2009 system using the vanilla gcc (GCC)
4.8.5 that comes with that version and R compiles just fine and it
passes 'make check' too.

Since R is trying to move toward C++14 support by default, I agree
with Iñaki, you might wanr to build and run R with a newer version of
gcc.  gcc 4.8.5 will only give you C++11 support.  RedHat's Software
Collections (SCL) devtoolset:s is the easiest way to do this. I've
done this too and can confirm that gcc 7.3.1 that comes with SCL
devtoolset/7 is sufficient to get C++14 support.  I'm sharing my
installation with lots of users, so I'm make it all transparent to the
end-user with environment modules, i.e. 'module load r/4.1.0' is all
the user needs to know.

/Henrik

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 7:28 AM Peter Dalgaard  wrote:


You may want to check out your checkout

I see:

Peter-Dalgaards-iMac:R pd$ grep newsock src/main/connections.c
 con = R_newsock(host, port, server, serverfd, open, timeout, options);

but your file seems to have lost the ", options" bit somehow. Also, mine is 
line 3488, not 3477.

Maybe you have an old file getting in the way?

- Peter


On 29 Apr 2021, at 15:58 , Ben Bolker  wrote:

  I probably don't want to go down this rabbit hole very far, but if anyone has 
any *quick* ideas ...

  Attempting to build R from scratch with a fresh SVN checkout on a somewhat 
out-of-date CentOS system (for which I don't have root access, although I can 
bug people if I care enough).

  ../r-devel/configure; make

ends with

gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../../r-devel/trunk/src/extra  -I. -I../../src/include 
-I../../../r-devel/trunk/src/include -I/usr/local/include 
-I../../../r-devel/trunk/src/nmath -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -fopenmp  -g -O2  -c 
../../../r-devel/trunk/src/main/connections.c -o connections.o
../../../r-devel/trunk/src/main/connections.c: In function ‘do_sockconn’:
../../../r-devel/trunk/src/main/connections.c:3477:5: error: too few arguments 
to function ‘R_newsock’
 con = R_newsock(host, port, server, serverfd, open, timeout);
 ^
In file included from ../../../r-devel/trunk/src/main/connections.c:80:0:
../../../r-devel/trunk/src/include/Rconnections.h:83:13: note: declared here
Rconnection R_newsock(const char *host, int port, int server, int serverfd, 
const char * const mode, int timeout, int options);
 ^
make[3]: *** [connections.o] Error 1

  Any suggestions for a quick fix/diagnosis?

  cheers
Ben Bolker




$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: 
:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID:   CentOS
Description:  CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)
Release:  7.8.2003
Codename: Core

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