[R-pkg-team] Bug#1037439: r-cran-rstan/armhf FTBFS with r-cran-bh 1.74

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 June 2023 at 16:37, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 03:30:18PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 
| > On 13 June 2023 at 13:15, Steve Langasek wrote:
| > | Control: reassign -1 r-cran-rstan r-cran-bh
| > | Control: found -1 r-cran-rstan/2.21.8-1
| > | 
| > | Unfortunately, at least in Ubuntu it appears the r-cran-rstan build still
| > | exhausts the 32-bit memory space even with boost 1.81.
| > | 
| > |   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r-cran-rstan/2.21.8-1/+build/26010118
| > 
| > :-/
| > 
| > Not sure that it is fair to point at BH / Boost though.  Anyway.
| > 
| > CRAN no longer checks / compiles 32 bit so upstream may not care, but they
| > are a good team (if busy).  You could ping Ben, he is at
| >    Benjamin K Goodrich <benjamin.goodrich at columbia.edu>
| >...
| 
| The patch below to r-base fixes the build of r-cran-rstan/i386 for me.

Shucks:  You missed a new upstream by a few days.  I'll consider a -2 but
note that ...
 
| This will reduce debug info in the R ecosystem on 32bit to what is 
| required for backtraces, but I assume realistically R on 32bit is
| anyway only sparsely used these days.

... 32 bit is no longer a release architecture for R upstream so this is
borderline either way.

Dirk


| 
| > Dirk
| 
| cu
| Adrian
| 
| --- debian/rules.old	2023-06-18 19:45:14.437261923 +0000
| +++ debian/rules	2023-06-18 19:51:30.097179612 +0000
| @@ -90,6 +90,11 @@
|  export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -ffloat-store
|  endif
|  
| +## fewer debug info on 32bit to workaround 2-4 GB address space limitation
| +ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS), 32)
| +export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND += -g1
| +endif
| +
|  ## edd 31 Mar 2014
|  ## edd 14 Oct 2022  disable LTO per email with Graham Inggs
|  #optimflags	= -O3 -pipe

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