R devel - Sep 2010 - package test failed on Solaris x86 -- help needed for debugging

Dear R developers,

we have currently a 'mysterious' test problem with one package that 
successfully passed the tests on all platforms, with the only exception 
of Solaris x86 where obviously one of our help examples breaks the CRAN 
test.

As we don't own such a machine I want to ask about a possibility to run 
a few tests on such a system:

r-patched-solaris-x86

An even more recent version of R on the same OS (Solaris 10) and with 
the same compiler (Sun Studio 12u1) would help also.

Any assistance is appreciated


Thomas Petzoldt


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Thomas Petzoldt
Technische Universitaet Dresden
Institut fuer Hydrobiologie        thomas.petzoldt at tu-dresden.de
01062 Dresden                      http://tu-dresden.de/hydrobiologie/
GERMANY

Dear Thomas,

Is this the deSolve package?

http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-patched-solaris-x86/deSolve-00check.html

I can help you with that. It does pass R CMD check on my OpenSolaris
installation, but I am getting some compiler warnings. I will send you
details.

Martyn

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 11:16 +0200, Thomas Petzoldt
wrote:
> Dear R developers,
> 
> we have currently a 'mysterious' test problem with one package that
> successfully passed the tests on all platforms, with the only exception 
> of Solaris x86 where obviously one of our help examples breaks the CRAN 
> test.
> 
> As we don't own such a machine I want to ask about a possibility to run
> a few tests on such a system:
> 
> r-patched-solaris-x86
> 
> An even more recent version of R on the same OS (Solaris 10) and with 
> the same compiler (Sun Studio 12u1) would help also.
> 
> Any assistance is appreciated
> 
> 
> Thomas Petzoldt
> 
> 

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On 16.09.2010 17:05, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> Dear Thomas,
>
> Is this the deSolve package?
>
>
http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-patched-solaris-x86/deSolve-00check.html
>
> I can help you with that. It does pass R CMD check on my OpenSolaris
> installation, but I am getting some compiler warnings. I will send you
> details.
>
> Martyn
You are right and there are many reasons what can be wrong, i.e. an 
obsolete comma in the example, the call to colorRampPalette after the 
ode.2D call or any problem with the C code. I wonder why this problem is 
so specific because it runs on all other eleven platforms including 
Solaris / Sparc.

Details about the compiler warnings are welcome.

Thomas

Dear Martin,

many thanks for your effort. Last night we found the same, thanks to the 
kind assistance from Bill Dunlap. The most important bugs are now 
already fixed, some minor things and an upload of a new version will 
follow soon.

Many thanks for the quick and competent assistance to Bill Dunlap, 
Matthew Doyle and you (Martyn Plummer). I've also setup a new Linux test 
system, so that next time valgrind checks can be performed before 
package upload.

Thank you!

Thomas Petzoldt