R devel - Apr 2008 - make check fails if called with --without-recommended-packages

Hi,

just for information:

On Suse 10.3 x86 
> make check 
fails,
if configure was called with --without-recommended-packages

for the latest beta. 

The problem I stumbled upon is located in utlis. Here comes the relevant part 
of  utils-Ex.Rout.fail in R-2.7.0/tests/Examples
> ### ** Examples
> 
> require(stats)
> glmout <- capture.output(example(glm))
Fehler in .find.package(package, lib.loc, verbose = verbose) : 
  there is no package called 'MASS'
Calls: capture.output ... eval.with.vis -> eval.with.vis ->
<Anonymous> -> .find.package
Ausf?hrung angehalten

Seems tests using recommended packages aren't disabled, even if given
--without-recommended-packages.

May be it's by design, i.e. make check shall only be run with recommended
packages,
may be it's a bug(let).


Regards
Detlef

It is by design.  Some tests will fail if you don't have iconv, also.
>From the manual:
   Failures are not necessarily problems as they might be caused by missing
   functionality, but you should look carefully at any reported
   discrepancies.

and that option is not even documented in the manual.

If you build without recommended packages or iconv or readline, you have 
to consciously do so and hence are expected to be aware that you have 
'missing functionality'.


On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Detlef Steuer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just for information:
>
> On Suse 10.3 x86
>> make check
>
> fails,
> if configure was called with --without-recommended-packages
>
> for the latest beta.
>
> The problem I stumbled upon is located in utlis. Here comes the relevant
part
> of  utils-Ex.Rout.fail in R-2.7.0/tests/Examples
>
>> ### ** Examples
>>
>> require(stats)
>> glmout <- capture.output(example(glm))
> Fehler in .find.package(package, lib.loc, verbose = verbose) :
>  there is no package called 'MASS'
> Calls: capture.output ... eval.with.vis -> eval.with.vis ->
<Anonymous> -> .find.package
> Ausf?hrung angehalten
>
> Seems tests using recommended packages aren't disabled, even if given 
> --without-recommended-packages.
>
> May be it's by design, i.e. make check shall only be run with 
> recommended packages, may be it's a bug(let).
>
>
> Regards
> Detlef
>
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