I don't see this with Xcode 9 OS X Sierra (10.12.6) and either
R Under development (unstable) (2017-09-26 r73351) -- "Unsuffered Consequences" Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit) or R version 3.4.2 RC (2017-09-26 r73351) -- "Short Summer" Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0 (64-bit) Specifically I can compile R and it passes make check. Perhaps it got fixed since the post. On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 4:47 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a quick note: Xcode 9 will not presently create a working R on Sierra > or earlier. > > This is because it ships with an SDK for 10.13 (unreleased) and defines an > entry for utimensat(), which is not actually in the system library for > earlier versions. > > There is no way we can fix this reliably for the upcoming 3.4.2 release, > so if you intend to build R from sources, either > > - just do not upgrade, stay on Xcode 8.3.3 > > or > > - manually remove the line from config.h saying > > #define HAVE_UTIMENSAT 1 > > > ---- > > The slightly longer story is that Apple decided to have their include > files generate a _warning_ that utimensat() is only available in 10.13, > like this: > > gcc -I../../../R/src/extra -I. -I../../src/include > -I../../../R/src/include -I/usr/local/include -I../../../R/src/nmath > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c ../../../R/src/main/platform.c -o platform.o > ../../../R/src/main/platform.c:2474:5: warning: 'utimensat' is only > available on > macOS 10.13 or newer [-Wunguarded-availability-new] > utimensat(AT_FDCWD, to, times, 0); > ^~~~~~~~~ > /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/ > MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.13.sdk/usr/include/sys/stat.h:374:5: > note: > 'utimensat' has been explicitly marked partial here > int utimensat(int __fd, const char *__path, const struct timespec __... > ^ > ../../../R/src/main/platform.c:2474:5: note: enclose 'utimensat' in a > __builtin_available check to silence this warning > utimensat(AT_FDCWD, to, times, 0); > ^~~~~~~~~ > ../../../R/src/main/platform.c:2890:11: warning: 'utimensat' is only > available > on macOS 10.13 or newer [-Wunguarded-availability-new] > res = utimensat(AT_FDCWD, fn, times, 0) == 0; > ^~~~~~~~~ > /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/ > MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.13.sdk/usr/include/sys/stat.h:374:5: > note: > 'utimensat' has been explicitly marked partial here > int utimensat(int __fd, const char *__path, const struct timespec __... > ^ > ../../../R/src/main/platform.c:2890:11: note: enclose 'utimensat' in a > __builtin_available check to silence this warning > res = utimensat(AT_FDCWD, fn, times, 0) == 0; > ^~~~~~~~~ > 2 warnings generated. > > Because of dynamic linking, we do not see the effect of this until we > actually try running the binary: > > begin installing recommended package MASS > dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _utimensat > Referenced from: /Users/pd/r-release-branch/BUILD-dist/bin/exec/x86_64/R > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib > > dyld: Symbol not found: _utimensat > Referenced from: /Users/pd/r-release-branch/BUILD-dist/bin/exec/x86_64/R > Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib > > /Users/pd/r-release-branch/BUILD-dist/bin/INSTALL: line 34: 59149 Done > echo 'tools:::.install_packages()' > 59150 Abort trap: 6 | R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES= LC_COLLATE=C > "${R_HOME}/bin/R" $myArgs --slave --args ${args} > > > Same warning also happens during the configure checks, but as it is not an > error the test program compiles and links OK (but is never run), and we get > > checking whether utimensat exists and is declared... yes > > Ugh!... > > > - Peter D. > > > -- > 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-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac