interference between Timer and R_useDynamicSymbols

[romainfrancois]

I have a very simple 📦 here https://github.com/romainfrancois/testtimer to demonstrate this issue.

The relevant thing is that it includes Timer.h in its _types.h file :

#include <Rcpp.h>
#include <Rcpp/Benchmark/Timer.h>

and so when I install it I get:

> install_github("romainfrancois/testtimer")
Downloading GitHub repo romainfrancois/testtimer@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/romainfrancois/testtimer/zipball/master
Installing testtimer
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/private/var/folders/r_/1b2gjtsd7j92jbbpz4t7ps340000gn/T/Rtmpz9TfM1/devtools40674e600f2/romainfrancois-testtimer-cd72001'  \
  --library='/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library' --with-keep.source --install-tests 

* installing *source* package ‘testtimer’ ...
** libs
clang++  -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/Rcpp/include" -I/usr/local/include   -fPIC  -Wno-unused-result -Wno-c++11-inline-namespace -O3 -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
RcppExports.cpp:26:5: error: no matching function for call to 'R_useDynamicSymbols'
    R_useDynamicSymbols(dll, FALSE);
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/R_ext/Rdynload.h:84:10: note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion from 'int' to 'Rboolean' for 2nd argument
Rboolean R_useDynamicSymbols(DllInfo *info, Rboolean value);
         ^
1 error generated.
make: *** [RcppExports.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘testtimer’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/testtimer’
Installation failed: Command failed (1)

[eddelbuettel]

Could that be a clang issue?

edd@rob:~$ installGithub.r romainfrancois/testtimer
Downloading GitHub repo romainfrancois/testtimer@master
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘testtimer’ ...
** libs
ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include"    -fpic  -g -O3 -Wall -pipe  -Wno-misleading-indentation -Wno-unused -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-deprecated-declarations -march=native -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
ccache g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include"    -fpic  -g -O3 -Wall -pipe  -Wno-misleading-indentation -Wno-unused -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-deprecated-declarations -march=native -c testtimer.cpp -o testtimer.o
ccache g++ -Wl,-S -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o testtimer.so RcppExports.o testtimer.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/testtimer/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (testtimer)
edd@rob:~$ 

[eddelbuettel]

Also works for me with clang if I select that compiler in ~/.R/Makevars:

edd@rob:~/git/testtimer(master)$ install.r testtimer_0.1.0.tar.gz 
* installing *source* package ‘testtimer’ ...
** libs
ccache clang++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include"    -fpic  -Wall -O3  -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
ccache clang++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include"    -fpic  -Wall -O3  -c testtimer.cpp -o testtimer.o
clang -Wl,-S -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o testtimer.so RcppExports.o testtimer.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/testtimer/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (testtimer)
edd@rob:~/git/testtimer(master)$ 

Could it be something else? Case on the filesystem? I am a little lost.

[coatless]

macOS specific I fear:

devtools::install_github("romainfrancois/testtimer")
Downloading GitHub repo romainfrancois/testtimer@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/romainfrancois/testtimer/zipball/master
Installing testtimer
'/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save  \
  --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/private/var/folders/b0/vt_1hj2d6yd8myx9lwh81pww0000gn/T/RtmpjLr5Qf/devtoolsf2ae3b74c003/romainfrancois-testtimer-cd72001'  \
  --library='/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library' --install-tests 

* installing *source* package ‘testtimer’ ...
** libs
/usr/local/clang4/bin/clang++ -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/Rcpp/include" -I/usr/local/include   -fPIC  -Wall -g -O2  -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
RcppExports.cpp:26:5: error: no matching function for call to 'R_useDynamicSymbols'
    R_useDynamicSymbols(dll, FALSE);
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/include/R_ext/Rdynload.h:84:10: note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion from 'int' to 'Rboolean' for 2nd argument
Rboolean R_useDynamicSymbols(DllInfo *info, Rboolean value);
         ^
1 error generated.
make: *** [RcppExports.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘testtimer’
* removing ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/testtimer’
Installation failed: Command failed (1)

[eddelbuettel]

Thanks for confirming. If either one of you could poke and see what may go wrong when __APPLE__ is defined I'd appreciate it. Maybe mach/mach_time.h declares FALSE as an int so that we get the

no known conversion from 'int' to 'Rboolean' for 2nd argument

error.

[eddelbuettel]

For good measure I also tossed it at WinBuilder and it fails there too:

* installing *source* package 'testtimer' ...
** libs

*** arch - i386
d:/Compiler/gcc-4.9.3/mingw_32/bin/g++  -I"D:/RCompile/recent/R-3.5.0/include" -DNDEBUG  -I"d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/lib/3.5/Rcpp/include"   -I"d:/Compiler/gcc-4.9.3/local330/include"     -O2 -Wall  -mtune=core2 -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
RcppExports.cpp: In function 'void R_init_testtimer(DllInfo*)':
RcppExports.cpp:26:35: error: invalid conversion from 'int' to 'Rboolean' [-fpermissive]
     R_useDynamicSymbols(dll, FALSE);
                                   ^
In file included from D:/RCompile/recent/R-3.5.0/include/Rinternals.h:51:0,
                 from d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/lib/3.5/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/r/headers.h:53,
                 from d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/lib/3.5/Rcpp/include/RcppCommon.h:38,
                 from d:/RCompile/CRANpkg/lib/3.5/Rcpp/include/Rcpp.h:27,
                 from ../inst/include/testtimer_types.h:1,
                 from RcppExports.cpp:4:
D:/RCompile/recent/R-3.5.0/include/R_ext/Rdynload.h:84:10: note: initializing argument 2 of 'Rboolean R_useDynamicSymbols(DllInfo*, Rboolean)'
 Rboolean R_useDynamicSymbols(DllInfo *info, Rboolean value);
          ^
make: *** [RcppExports.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'testtimer'
* removing 'd:/RCompile/CRANguest/R-release/lib/testtimer'
In R CMD INSTALL