Compile Error in up-to-date arch Linux

[mgrewe]

Hi Stephan,

I wanted to recompile Morpho for R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02), using a quite recent glib (2.28-4) in up-to-date arch Linux. I got the following error during install.packages:

[...]
installing to /[...]/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/Morpho/libs
** R
** data
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  Mutex creation failed
/usr/lib64/R/bin/INSTALL: line 34:  2553 Done                    echo 'tools:::.install_packages()'
      2554 Aborted                 (core dumped) | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= LC_COLLATE=C "${R_HOME}/bin/R" $myArgs --slave --args ${args}
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘Morpho’ had non-zero exit status

If you can point me to some potential code locations, I can try to debug the issue myself.

[zarquon42b]

Hi Martin, did you use the cran version or the github version? How did you try to install? This seems to be an issue in the system as the tests (with all versions) seem to be fine: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Morpho.html Maybe try to install the tarball directly via R CMD INSTALL path_to_morpho.tar.gz

[mgrewe]

Thanks for the quick reply. Originally, I used install.packages("Morpho") to build and thus the latest package available via cran. I now tried compiling using Master from github via R CMD INSTALL path_to_morpho.tar.gz as you mentioned, but it gave me the same error. I assume, the build tests might not check against different glib versions and I am pretty sure, that the first occurrence of that error coincides with the glib update.

[mgrewe]

Had some time for bug hunting. Seems there was a problem in one of the dependencies, that needed a rebuild. After fresh install of all packages, everything works as expected now. Sorry for bothering.

[zarquon42b]

Thanks for reporting back. I had some trouble with other packages after the upgrade to R 3.5.1, too. I had to rebuild all my installed packages.