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

[Jeroen Ooms]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:58 AM Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.


This sounds a lot like this upstream issue:
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/27431. I'm the Jérémy (libnode
maintainer) to the cc.