cannot install 0.12.6: problem in exceptions.h

[vttrifonov]

Just tried 0.12.6 to install and am getting

* installing to library ‘/opt/tools/install/R/3.1.0/lib/R/library’
* installing *source* package ‘Rcpp’ ...
** package ‘Rcpp’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
g++ -I/opt/tools/install/R/3.1.0/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I../inst/include/ -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -g -O2  -c Date.cpp -o Date.o
In file included from ../inst/include/RcppCommon.h:122:0,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:27,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:267:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const std::string& message) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:272:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:277:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:282:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, const T3& arg3) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:287:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, const T3& arg3, const T4& arg4) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:292:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, const T3& arg3, const T4& arg4, const T5& arg5) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:297:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, const T3& arg3, const T4& arg4, const T5& arg5, const T6& arg6) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:302:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, const T3& arg3, const T4& arg4, const T5& arg5, const T6& arg6, const T7& arg7) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:307:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, const T3& arg3, const T4& arg4, const T5& arg5, const T6& arg6, const T7& arg7, const T8& arg8) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:312:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, const T3& arg3, const T4& arg4, const T5& arg5, const T6& arg6, const T7& arg7, const T8& arg8, const T9& arg9) {
                       ^
../inst/include/Rcpp/exceptions.h:317:23: error: expected initializer before ‘stop’
     inline void NORET stop(const char* fmt, const T1& arg1, const T2& arg2, const T3& arg3, const T4& arg4, const T5& arg5, const T6& arg6, const T7& arg7, const T8& arg8, const T9& arg9, const T10& arg10) {
                       ^
In file included from ../inst/include/Rcpp/Vector.h:56:0,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:38,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/vector/DimNameProxy.h: In member function ‘Rcpp::internal::DimNameProxy& Rcpp::internal::DimNameProxy::assign(SEXP)’:
../inst/include/Rcpp/vector/DimNameProxy.h:43:121: error: too many arguments to function ‘void Rcpp::stop(const string&)’
                     stop("dimension extent is '%d' while length of names is '%d'", INTEGER(dims)[dim_], Rf_length(other));
                                                                                                                         ^
In file included from ../inst/include/RcppCommon.h:70:0,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:27,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/utils/tinyformat.h:127:10: note: declared here
     void stop(const std::string& message);
          ^
In file included from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:47:0,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/Function.h: In constructor ‘Rcpp::Function_Impl<StoragePolicy>::Function_Impl(const string&, const string&)’:
../inst/include/Rcpp/Function.h:72:63: error: too many arguments to function ‘void Rcpp::stop(const string&)’
                 stop("there is no namespace called \"%s\"", ns);
                                                               ^
In file included from ../inst/include/RcppCommon.h:70:0,
                 from ../inst/include/Rcpp.h:27,
                 from Date.cpp:31:
../inst/include/Rcpp/utils/tinyformat.h:127:10: note: declared here
     void stop(const std::string& message);
          ^
make: *** [Date.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rcpp’
* removing ‘/opt/tools/install/R/3.1.0/lib/R/library/Rcpp’

[eddelbuettel]

What OS?
What version?
What compiler?
What else?

How are we supposed to do anything with a report like this? Also please look up formatting help.

[eddelbuettel]

For reference CRAN builds are fine across different OSs, as are Debian builds across various hardware platforms.

[vttrifonov]

Sorry about the formatting. Just copy-pasted the output and did not expect for it to look like this.

Ubuntu 14.04

Attaching the output of the R session

rcpp_install.txt

It might a problem with my configuration, but I looked at exceptions.h where the problem appears to be and it has declarations that look like 'void NORET stop' with NORET nowhere defined (as far as I can tell).

[eddelbuettel]

Local issue, closing this.

You are

• on an OS version no longer supported by its vendor -- 16.04 is current LTS
• two years out of date on R itself even though we hand you pre-built binaries via CRAN
• have something non-reproducible here and just re-including the same report does not add anything
• insist on using a local build of R below /opt we know nothing about.

In short, if you insist on outdated OS and outdated R please stick with the pre-compiled outdated Rcpp you get via sudo apt-get install r-cran-rcpp.

If it breaks under such circumstances, you get to keep the pieces.

[eddelbuettel]

Ok, reopening. I can replicate on Ubuntu 14.04 using g++ 4.8.4.

You may just need to move to a newer release, sorry.

@jjallaire @kevinushey @thirdwing @krlmlr The narrow culprit may be Kirill's NORET commit on June What would be a sensible way to

• triage this,
• avoid the issue on ancient compilers,
• maybe make Travis more robust by forcing older compilers?

[eddelbuettel]

In the meantime 0.12.5 still installs on Ubuntu 14.04 with R 3.0.1 and g++ 4.8.4.

[eddelbuettel]

@vttrifonov As a stop-gap measure, if you edit exceptions.h by hand and either remove NORET and place it inside comments ie `/* NORET */ then you can install fine. We'll take a look at this to address it more systematically.

[vttrifonov]

Thanks for the commenting. I will stick with 0.2.15 for now.

[eddelbuettel]

#define NORET

works too. I guess we need to protect / sharpen the original definition here and undefine for ancient g++.

[kevinushey]

The issue here is simply that R only defines NORET in recent-ish versions of R (sorry, should have caught this earlier): wch/r-source@0c43709

We could easily just copy this macro definition into Rcpp; I'll submit a PR doing that.

[kevinushey]

The issue isn't old gcc, it's older R (which don't have the NORET define).

[eddelbuettel]

Ohhhhhhhhh, I missed that completely.