On Thursday, 11 May 2017 17.37.41 WEST Martyn Plummer wrote: > Dear Tom, > > I see that RPMS for R 3.4.0 are not successfully built on Fedora, nor > on RHEL 7. > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1230 > > When I build with mock on Fedora 25 I also get a build failure. R is > not able to establish the time zone inside the chroot and this triggers > a regression tests which is new in R 3.4.0. Specifically, in file > tests/reg-tests-1d.R this test fails: > > ## PR#17186 - Sys.timezone() on some Debian-derived platforms > (S.t <- Sys.timezone()) > if(is.na(S.t) || !nzchar(S.t)) stop("could not get timezone") > ## has been NA_character_ in Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS > > > The work-around is to set the environment variable TZ to any non-empty > string before running make check, in the %check section of the SPEC > file, e.g. > > TZ="Europe/Paris" make check > > best regards > Martyn
Thank you Martyn. :-) I am rebuilding R bumping the version since the previous version succeeded to build on el6. BTW Tom, it is probably time to get rid of the %defattr(-, root, root, -) after we are already in the Spring here in the North hemisphere. :-) Regards, -- José Abílio _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
