Re: pkg/55328: math/R fails to build

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/55328; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/55328: math/R fails to build
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:16:22 +0300

 Fortunately, this issue is simpler than I feared. Thus, I will close this
 PR and file another one if and when I better understand what is wrong.
 
 In any case, the problem is related to unicode; R works fine on NetBSD with,
 e.g., LC_ALL="en_US.ISO8859-1".  However, with UTF-8 most functions that
 invoke graphical output systematically segfault. An example:
 
 $ locale
 LANG=""
 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_COLLATE="C"
 LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
 $ R
 
 R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05) -- "Action of the Toes"
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 Platform: x86_64--netbsd (64-bit)
 
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 During startup - Warning message:
 Setting LC_COLLATE failed, using "C" 
 > hist(rnorm(3000))
 
  *** caught segfault ***
 address 0x64c, cause 'memory not mapped'
 
 Traceback:
  1: tolower(breaks)
  2: match.arg(tolower(breaks), c("sturges", "fd", "freedman-diaconis", "scott"))
  3: hist.default(rnorm(3000))
  4: hist(rnorm(3000))
 
 Possible actions:
 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
 2: normal R exit
 3: exit R without saving workspace
 4: exit R saving workspace
 Selection: 1
 R is aborting now ...
 Memory fault (core dumped)