FWIW I was able to replicate the problem using AIX7.1 on Power8, R 3.2.3, vac/xlc 11.1, xlf 13.1 in 64-bit mode. Indeed, Peter's analysis is correct re_regexecb(®line, line..) returns REG_NOMATCH even though the string is literally "Package: tools" - no special characters anywhere.
On Dec 17, 2015, at 3:37 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 17 Dec 2015, at 19:58 , Michael Felt <aixto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 2015-12-17 19:30, peter dalgaard wrote: >>> Presumably the file in question is one of >>> >>> Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:BUILD pd$ grep -r "^Package: tools" * >>> library/tools/DESCRIPTION:Package: tools >>> src/library/tools/DESCRIPTION:Package: tools >>> >>> so the first thing I'd do is to have a good look at those files and see if >>> they got somehow corrupted. >>> >>> If they look sane, presumably the bit of code that checks it isn't... So >>> that would be my next thing to check. >>> >>> -pd >> I had just gotten here, and tried comparing them with the 32-bit build (as I >> do not know what sane is yet). >> >> Sources are in: >> /data/prj/cran/R-3.2.3 >> >> Builds are in: >> /data/prj/cran/32/R-3.2.3 and >> /data/prj/cran/64/R-3.2.3 >> >> The files, in the build directories look "sane", at least comparable > > OK. Perhaps a check for special characters with a hex editor, just to be > sure? But probably not the cause. > >> >> root@x065:[/data/prj/cran/R-3.2.3]sdiff -w 132 >> /data/prj/cran/??/R-3.2.3/library/tools/DESCRIPTION >> Package: tools Package: >> tools >> Version: 3.2.3 Version: >> 3.2.3 >> Priority: base >> Priority: base >> Title: Tools for Package Development Title: >> Tools for Package Development >> Author: R Core Team Author: >> R Core Team >> Maintainer: R Core Team <r-c...@r-project.org> >> Maintainer: R Core Team <r-c...@r-project.org> >> Description: Tools for package development, administration and >> Description: Tools for package development, administration and >> License: Part of R 3.2.3 License: >> Part of R 3.2.3 >> Suggests: XML, codetools, methods >> Suggests: XML, codetools, methods >> Built: R 3.2.3; powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.7.0; 2015-12-17 12:02:34 UTC | Built: R >> 3.2.3; ; Thu Dec 17 17:39:55 UTC 2015; unix >> >> As the 32-bit build completes, while the 64-bit stops at "tools" there is a >> difference in what they have available: >> >> root@x065:[/data/prj/cran/R-3.2.3]ls -l >> /data/prj/cran/??/R-3.2.3/library/tools >> /data/prj/cran/32/R-3.2.3/library/tools: >> total 72 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 33 356 Dec 17 12:02 DESCRIPTION >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 33 3665 Dec 16 11:37 INDEX >> drwxr-sr-x 2 root 33 4096 Dec 17 08:45 Meta >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 33 7112 Dec 17 12:02 NAMESPACE >> drwxr-sr-x 2 root 33 4096 Dec 17 12:02 R >> drwxr-sr-x 2 root 33 4096 Dec 16 11:37 help >> drwxr-sr-x 2 root 33 4096 Dec 16 11:37 html >> drwxr-sr-x 2 root 33 4096 Dec 16 11:34 libs >> >> /data/prj/cran/64/R-3.2.3/library/tools: >> total 40 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 33 339 Dec 17 17:40 DESCRIPTION >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 33 7112 Dec 17 17:40 NAMESPACE >> drwxr-sr-x 2 root 33 4096 Dec 17 17:19 R >> drwxr-sr-x 2 root 33 4096 Dec 17 05:58 libs >> >> So, is dcf.c, or main.c the better place to check. dcf.c does not look like >> "fun" - all those lexical arguments at the start: > > Cue story of looking for keys under lamppost... > >> >> SEXP attribute_hidden do_readDCF(SEXP call, SEXP op, SEXP args, SEXP env) >> { >> .... man many lines .... >> } else { >> /* Must be a regular line with no tag >> ... */ >> line[20] = '\0'; >> error(_("Line starting '%s ...' is >> malformed!"), line); >> } >> } >> } >> } >> ... more lines to go... >> > > As you're dying in an else clause, a previous if () must contain the clue. > Unfortunately not necessarily the matching one. > > My guess is that your TRE library is broken. The line should have matched the > RE "regline" defined as > > tre_regcomp(®line, "^[^:]+:[[:blank:]]*", REG_EXTENDED); > ...and used here: > if(tre_regexecb(®line, line, 1, regmatch, 0) == 0) { > > but apparently does not. > > > >> Thanks for the assistance! >> >> Michael > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel