Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2019-11-22 Thread Dénes Tóth
Maybe a further thing to consider is to introduce an environment variable by which one can avoid `add_build_stamp_to_description_file()` and any other calls altogether which affect bitwise reproducibility during the build process. If two users build the same package on exactly the same hardware

Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

2019-11-22 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Another thing to consider if one wants to anonymize the build is the UID/GID of the files in the tarball. So there might be a need for a R_BUILD_UID and R_BUILD_GID, e.g. by setting those to 32767 ("nobody"). /Henrik On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:25 AM Will L wrote: > > Thanks, Kurt. > > I think I

Re: [Rd] Can't build R 3.6.1 or 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

2019-11-22 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 2:58 PM Saren Tasciyan wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to build a more recent version (3.6.1 or 3.5.3) of R on > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Are you aware you can get up-to-date binaries either from PPA or CRAN: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter sudo apt-get install r

Re: [Rd] Can't build R 3.6.1 or 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

2019-11-22 Thread peter dalgaard
Pure guessing, but a frequent way to get the "have libs, still won't build" syndrome on Linux variants is not having installed the corresponding -dev or -devel package. -pd > On 21 Nov 2019, at 19:07 , Saren Tasciyan wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to build a more recent version (3.6.1 or 3.5

[Rd] Can't build R 3.6.1 or 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

2019-11-22 Thread Saren Tasciyan
Hi, I am trying to build a more recent version (3.6.1 or 3.5.3) of R on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I have installed build-deps with: sudo apt-get build-dep r-base and I ran ./configure During "make", I get the following error: platform.o: In function `do_eSoftVersion': /home/user/Desktop/R-3.6.1/src