compileAttributes ends up calling a .Call function that lives inside Rcpp.so. 

Le 2 nov. 2013 à 10:25, Simon Zehnder <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Thanks Romain,
> 
> looks the same here. So the path is the same, but it seems, that the padding 
> is different. I would like to understand what happens when I call 
> compileAttributes. Is there anywhere a linking involved with Rcpp.so or 
> Rcpp.dylib? 
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> On 02 Nov 2013, at 09:57, Romain Francois <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Le 02/11/2013 09:35, Simon Zehnder a écrit :
>>> First, I didn’t. But for getting some output from the functions in 
>>> attributes.cpp I later compiled the Rcpp package from source. When I 
>>> compile with the option “-headerpad_max_install_names” the 
>>> compileAttributes runs without an error. If I compile without this flag, I 
>>> get the pointer error.
>>> Problems with header padding is a well-known issue on the Mac 
>>> (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1927), usually in frameworks. It 
>>> is used a relative path in the sections of shared objects (sometimes also 
>>> in dynamic libs). When the library/shared object has to be included in 
>>> other libraries, the relative path has to be changed to an absolute path. 
>>> If then there is not enough space in the header of the Mach-O file, it 
>>> gives you an exception.
>>> 
>>> But my guess is for the compileAttributes function, that no library binding 
>>> is done, though it takes library paths as arguments when calling ‘.Call’. 
>>> My perception has been so far, that this function solely creates the 
>>> RcppExports.cpp and *.R files without any compilation or linking (this is 
>>> done later, when we compile the package with the attributes). The 
>>> depends/linkingto names from the DESCRIPTION file are used for headers in 
>>> the RcppExports.cpp file I have guessed. The point, that I am seemingly the 
>>> only one, that encounters this error, points me to my compiler (gcc4.8.2). 
>>> Could be, that under the hood clang uses already a larger header padding.
>>> 
>>> Btw: When you are on Mac, could you check what “otool -L Rcpp.so” give you? 
>>> Is the path relative (Rcpp.so) or absolute (has it something like 
>>> @exectuable_path in front)?
>> 
>> $ otool -L Rcpp.so
>> Rcpp.so:
>>    Rcpp.so (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
>>    /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/lib/libR.dylib 
>> (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.2)
>>    
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
>>  (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 855.11.0)
>>    /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 
>> 120.0.0)
>>    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 
>> 1197.1.1)
>> 
>> 
>>> Best
>>> Simon
>>> 
>>> On 02 Nov 2013, at 01:02, Hadley Wickham <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Did you install Rcpp from source? That's what I had to do to solve a 
>>>> similar problem.
>>>> 
>>>> Hadley
>>>> 
>>>> On Friday, November 1, 2013, Simon Zehnder wrote:
>>>> Same thing actually on my side: I had a hardware crash lately with 10.8 
>>>> and made fresh install after formatting my harddrive NSA-style :)
>>>> 
>>>> Afterwards I compiled R 3.0.1 and from macports the gcc48 port as well as 
>>>> gettext. Then, Mavericks came and I updated - nothing worked anymore: I 
>>>> reinstalled gcc48 port and deleted R 3.0.1. Then I installed gcc4.8.2 from 
>>>> http://hpc.sourceforge.net, Xcode Command line tools for Mavericks and 
>>>> XQuartz 4.7.2. I work with environment modules, where I can load a certain 
>>>> compiler with its needed environment variables. With gcc 4.8.2 I installed 
>>>> R-3.0.2 and then the packages. Always have to type “module load 
>>>> compilers/gcc-4.8.2 before starting R, but that doesn’t bother me … I 
>>>> still can use openMP to its great extent :)
>>>> 
>>>> My problem is linked to the install_name_tool and the way on Mac OS paths 
>>>> are set and replaced in dynamic libraries …  this could of course be 
>>>> caused by “older tools” like the llvm-gcc4.2 “laying” around…. though 
>>>> locate does not find them….
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 01 Nov 2013, at 20:33, Dominick Samperi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> My original attempt to update to Mavericks failed (unrelated hardware 
>>>>> issue), and this
>>>>> may have actually worked in my favor. It forced me to install Mac OS X 
>>>>> 10.8 from
>>>>> scratch, a "clean" install, that I later upgraded to Mavericks. If you 
>>>>> upgraded from
>>>>> an existing configuration you may have old tools (like llvm-g++-4.2) 
>>>>> laying around
>>>>> that could cause problems.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Simon Zehnder <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I read through all the thread answers and my variables in the Makeconf 
>>>>> are the same alsso I installed the Xcode Command Line Tools for 
>>>>> Mavericks. Are there any other apps and libs that have been to be 
>>>>> updated? (I do not use brew). What remains is the following:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Compiling Rcpp give the pointer exception (when calling 
>>>>> compileAttributes), also encountered in the thread you referred to.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Compiling Rcpp and adding the flag “-headerpad_max_install_names” lets 
>>>>> the compileAttributes function do its work without any exception. My next 
>>>>> guess is: possibly the gettext library…
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best
>>>>> 
>>>>> Simon
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 01 Nov 2013, at 19:20, Dominick Samperi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> In your original post you mention the "pointer being freed was not 
>>>>>> allocated" error message. I have just tracked this down in another 
>>>>>> context (Octave
>>>>>> under Mac OS X). In my case the error occurs on the dlopen() call for
>>>>>> an R package shared library. The fix was to make sure all apps and libs
>>>>>> are updated after moving to Mavericks. See the thread in rcppoctave-users
>>>>>> list for a blow-by-blow description.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Simon Zehnder <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> You are right, working with apple and C++ is often a mess. Up to now, 
>>>>>> llvm does not yet support openmp. It is coming but I do not see it fully 
>>>>>> implemented before next summer. If I want to use openmp I have thus to 
>>>>>> rely on the gcc which brings a lot of problems with it and from what I 
>>>>>> read on the R-lists most of the Mac Users suffer. I guess that this time 
>>>>>> a reinstall of R was unavoidable for most of us. I thought about using 
>>>>>> the xcrun —find gcc/g++ etc. to get what is needed in a Makevars but 
>>>>>> this does not give anything so far.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 01 Nov 2013, at 17:50, Dominick Samperi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> With Apple moving from gcc/g++ to LLVM/clang++ I guess it makes sense
>>>>>>> for R/Rcpp to use the LLVM/clang++ tool chain eventuallly, but I don't 
>>>>>>> know
>>>>>>> if there are plans to do this. Otherwise, the R community would need to
>>>>>>> support "MACtools" following the model provided by "Rtools" under 
>>>>>>> Windows...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Simon Zehnder <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Dominick,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I did install files from brew but instead used the gcc from 
>>>>>>> http://hpc.sourceforge.net
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 01 Nov 2013, at 16:55, Dominick Samperi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> If you depend on tools installed using brew, you might want to try
>>>>>>>> removing those that were installed before the Mavericks update,
>>>>>>>> using:
>>>>>>>> rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar
>>>>>>>> brew prune
>>>>>>>> brew doctor
>>>>>>>> brew install <what-you-need>
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Simon Zehnder <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Point landing J.J.!
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I already compiled a new R when Mavericks came out with a newly 
>>>>>>>> installed a gcc-4.8.2, that I can load via environment modules. I also 
>>>>>>>> installed th
>>>> 
>>>> 
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