[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#845753: Possible workaround

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 December 2016 at 14:26, Andreas Tille wrote:
| This was discussed before.  The output above is from a previous package
| version where I simply forgot to actually use xvfb.  Since this error
| of mine the package was build without RGL - thus the warning.  Later I
| was using xvfb correctly including OpenGL (thanks to Gregor Hermann who
| pointed me to the solution).  However, the segfault remained.

If there is a (new?) trick, can you share it?  Maybe even test in r-cran.mk
so that it progagates?  The rgl package (ie r-cran-rgl) appears in other
builds too so I would probably incorporate this.
  
| Sorry, but I have no idea how since I'm totally clueless currently and
| upstream also did not yet responded to this after the initial idea that
| it might be some ape related issue was not helpful.  Do you in turn see
| any chance to push this question to the right forum in the R community?

Not really. All (well, most) builds at their are fine [1]. They would likely suggest that
we sort our (local to them) issues out at our end.

How to run R with gdb is discussed iin Writing R Extensions.  Maybe we need
to start with some stacktraces to see who calls whom how.

Dirk

[1] https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_treescape.html
Solaris and OS X having warnings is not uncommon.
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