Tim, sure, make sense (it's also easier to use ASAN and friends that way). The only issue is that it won't work for mcOS-specific bugs.
Cheers, Simon > On 22/04/2020, at 3:55 PM, Tim Keitt <tke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Simon. I'll probably just switch to rocker when needing to debug in > that case. > > THK > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 6:51 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> > wrote: > Tim, > > as a security precaution Apple has disabled the ability to debug notarized > applications*. It means any software distributed on macOS Catalina (and they > may have retro-actively enabled it for recent updates of Mojave) cannot be > run in a debugger. > > If you want to debug R, you have to use non-release binaries that are not > notarized and install them by hand, e.g.: > > curl -L > http://mac.r-project.org/high-sierra/R-4.0-branch/x86_64/R-4.0-branch.tar.gz > | tar fxz - -C / > > Of course, this disables the Apple protections and thus is not recommended > for casual users. > > Cheers, > Simon > > * - more technical details: Apple requires notarization of any application > that will be distributed via an Apple installer. Apple no longer allows > installation of macOS applications that are not notarized. In order to obtain > notarization, the application has to be fully signed, has to use hardened > run-time and may not enable debugging entitlements. One part of the hardened > run-time is that no debugger is allowed to attach to the application. > > > > On 22/04/2020, at 8:59 AM, Tim Keitt <tke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I see: > > > > Tims-Air:~ tkeitt$ R --version > > > > R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock" > > > > Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > > > > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) > > > > > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > > > You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the > > > > GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3. > > > > For more information about these matters see > > > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/. > > > > > > Tims-Air:~ tkeitt$ R -d lldb > > > > (lldb) target create "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/R" > > > > Current executable set to > > '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/R' (x86_64). > > > > (lldb) run --vanilla > > > > error: process exited with status -1 (Error 1) > > > > Never happened before. Is this a known issue? > > > > Thanks. > > > > THK > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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
