[R-pkg-team] updating r-cran-v8 in experimental

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jeroen,

On Sun, Jun 09, 2019 at 02:39:33PM +0200, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> Debian 'experimental' now has nodeJS v12.x which ships with a new
> version of the v8 engine. In order to build r-cran-v8 against this
> libnode, you need the latest version of the R package:
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/V8/index.html

Thanks a lot for this hint.
 
> Perhaps r-cran-v8 2.2 should be uploaded to experimental?

Unfortunately I get:

...
I: R packages needed for DEP8: testthat
I: R Package: V8 Version: 2.2
I: Building using R version 3.6.0-2
I: R API version: r-api-3.5
I: Using built-time from d/changelog: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:49:25 +0200
        mkdir -p /build/r-cran-v8-2.2\+dfsg/debian/r-cran-v8/usr/lib/R/site-library
        R CMD INSTALL -l /build/r-cran-v8-2.2\+dfsg/debian/r-cran-v8/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . "--built-timestamp='Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:49:25 +0200'"
* installing *source* package 'V8' ...
files 'inst/doc/npm.html', 'inst/doc/v8_intro.html' are missing
** using staged installation
Using PKG_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/v8 -I/usr/include/v8-3.14
Using PKG_LIBS=-lv8 -lv8_libplatform
** libs
make[1]: Entering directory '/build/r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/src'
rm -f V8.so RcppExports.o bindings.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/v8 -I/usr/include/v8-3.14 -I"/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include"  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.6.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/include/v8 -I/usr/include/v8-3.14 -I"/usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include"  -fvisibility=hidden -fpic  -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.6.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c bindings.cpp -o bindings.o
g++ -std=gnu++11 -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-z,relro -o V8.so RcppExports.o bindings.o -lv8 -lv8_libplatform -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/src'
make[1]: Entering directory '/build/r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/src'
installing to /build/r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/debian/r-cran-v8/usr/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/00new/V8/libs
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
Error: package or namespace load failed for 'V8' in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/build/r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/debian/r-cran-v8/usr/lib/R/site-library/00LOCK-r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/00new/V8/libs/V8.so':
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnode.so.72: undefined symbol: _ZN4node13native_module14has_code_cacheE
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing '/build/r-cran-v8-2.2+dfsg/debian/r-cran-v8/usr/lib/R/site-library/V8'


I have no idea what might be wrong here. 

> Also the description of the package has changed (a long time ago) so
> perhaps this can be updated as well :)

Fixed in Git.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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