Thank you Paul and Avi for your response. Indeed, there was an error in Makefile which could have been contributing to the issues with parallel make. I have re-submitted after correcting for the mistakes in Makefile, hopefully it will not throw errors with parallel make now.
Thank you for your advice. Satyaprakash On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 2:01 PM Avraham Adler <avraham.ad...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you want to use .NOTPARRALLEL, that’s considered non-portable as it’s > GNU-make specific, (I got an email from Dr. Ripley this week) so you have > to add Gnu Make to the system requirements in the DESCRIPTION or find the > right sequence of targets to ensure order is maintained even in parallel > make. > > Avi > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 1:29 PM Paul Gilbert <pgilbert...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> (I didn't see an answer to this, so ...) >> >> I think using .NOTPARALLEL will usually get rid of the error but, in my >> experience, this problem is usually caused by an incorrect or incomplete >> Makefile. When not done in parallel this missing target is usually >> getting done first as a side-affect of something that happens before and >> usually finishes before it is needed. Your luck does not hold in >> parallel. The better fix is to correct your Makefile. >> >> Paul >> >> On 1/10/19 4:54 PM, Satyaprakash Nayak wrote: >> > Dear R package developers >> > >> > I published a package on CRAN last year (sundialr) which is now failing >> > with as it is not make to compile a static library with parallel make. >> > >> > In this package, I compile a static library (libsundials_all.a) from >> source >> > files of a third party. The specifics of compiling the static library >> can >> > be found at - >> https://github.com/sn248/sundialr/blob/master/src/Makevars >> > >> > Now, I got the following error message from CRAN (actually, I was >> informed >> > of this before, but had neglected to fix it). Here is the message from >> one >> > of the CRAN maintainers .. >> > >> > >> *************************************************************************************************************************************** >> > This have just failed to install for me with a parallel make: >> > >> > g++ -std=gnu++98 -std=gnu++98 -shared >> > -L/data/blackswan/ripley/extras/lib64 -L/usrlocal/lib64 -o sundialr.so >> > cvode.o RcppExports.o -L/data/blackswan/ripley/R/R-patched/lib -lRlapack >> > -L/data/blackswan/ripley/R/R-patched/lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm >> > -lquadmath -L../inst/ ../inst/libsundials_all.a >> > g++: error: ../inst/libsundials_all.a: No such file or directory >> > make[1]: *** [/data/blackswan/ripley/R/R-patched/share/make/shlib.mk:6: >> > sundialr.so] Error 1 >> > >> ***************************************************************************************************************************************** >> > >> > It seems the package fails to generate the static library with the >> parallel >> > make. The easiest solution I could think of for this problem was to >> force a >> > serial version of make using the .NOTPARALLEL phony command in Makevars >> and >> > Makevars.win(https://github.com/sn248/sundialr/blob/master/src/Makevars). >> I >> > have made this change and it seems to work on my machine and on testing >> > with TravisCI and Appveyor(https://github.com/sn248/sundialr). >> > >> > However, before I re-submit to CRAN, I wanted to get an opinion as to >> will >> > this be enough to get rid of the error with parallel make? >> > >> > Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, thank you! >> > Satyaprakash >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
