R devel - Dec 2011 - error starting R-devel with --arch ppc -- "an unusual circumstance has arisen"

When I try and start R-devel as follows:

R --vanilla --arch ppc

I see this, over and over again, ^C does not interrupt it and I have
to close the terminal window:
> Error in paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n") :
  not a BUILTIN function
In addition: Warning message:
An unusual circumstance has arisen in the nesting of readline input.
Please report using bug.report()
> Error in paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n") :
  not a BUILTIN function
In addition: Warning message:
An unusual circumstance has arisen in the nesting of readline input.
Please report using bug.report()

I can't get to sessionInfo() but here is sessionInfo() of the same R
invoked with no --arch argument:

R Under development (unstable) (2011-12-14 r57899)
Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


This seems to be related to the issue I reported here previously:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-December/062793.html


Thanks,
Dan

Dan,

I don't know why, but something is off in the recent R-devel build for ppc.
The result is that the installed binary ppc is older than the other ones, so it
doesn't have paste0 while the others do.

The really strange thing is that the build logs show success, but the build
directory is old and the resulting tar ball is not updated. I'll keep you
posted.

Cheers,
Simon



On Dec 15, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> When I try and start R-devel as follows:
> 
> R --vanilla --arch ppc
> 
> I see this, over and over again, ^C does not interrupt it and I have
> to close the terminal window:
> 
>> Error in paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n") :
>  not a BUILTIN function
> In addition: Warning message:
> An unusual circumstance has arisen in the nesting of readline input.
> Please report using bug.report()
>> Error in paste0(prefix, conditionMessage(e), "\n") :
>  not a BUILTIN function
> In addition: Warning message:
> An unusual circumstance has arisen in the nesting of readline input.
> Please report using bug.report()
> 
> I can't get to sessionInfo() but here is sessionInfo() of the same R
> invoked with no --arch argument:
> 
> R Under development (unstable) (2011-12-14 r57899)
> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> 
> This seems to be related to the issue I reported here previously:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-December/062793.html
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
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