Re: pkg/56696

["Dr. Thomas Orgis" <thomas.orgis%uni-hamburg.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56696; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dr. Thomas Orgis" <thomas.orgis%uni-hamburg.de@localhost>
To: <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/56696
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 15:14:31 +0200

 Some more detail: This happens when X11 is not accessible. Empty
 DISPLAY is enough. Demonstrator:
 
 # Bad.
 $ mkdir -p /dev/shm/R; DISPLAY=3D LANG=3DC R --no-save --no-restore <<< 'in=
 stall.packages("tcltk2", repos=3D"http://cran.ch.r-project.org";, dependenci=
 es=3DTRUE, lib=3D"/dev/shm/R")'
 
 R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22) -- "Vigorous Calisthenics"
 Copyright (C) 2022 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
 Platform: x86_64-debian-linux-gnu (64-bit)
 
 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
 You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
 Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
 
 R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
 Type 'contributors()' for more information and
 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
 
 Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
 Type 'q()' to quit R.
 
 > install.packages("tcltk2", repos=3D"http://cran.ch.r-project.org";, depend=
 encies=3DTRUE, lib=3D"/dev/shm/R")
 trying URL 'http://cran.ch.r-project.org/src/contrib/tcltk2_1.2-11.tar.gz'
 Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 833846 bytes (814 KB)
 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
 downloaded 814 KB
 
 * installing *source* package 'tcltk2' ...
 ** package 'tcltk2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
 ** using staged installation
 ** R
 ** inst
 ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
 Warning message:
 no DISPLAY variable so Tk is not available=20
 ** help
 *** installing help indices
 ** building package indices
 ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
 Terminated
 [pkill R in other terminal]
 
 
 # Good.
 $ mkdir -p /dev/shm/R; DISPLAY=3D:0 LANG=3DC R --no-save --no-restore <<< '=
 install.packages("tcltk2", repos=3D"http://cran.ch.r-project.org";, dependen=
 cies=3DTRUE, lib=3D"/dev/shm/R")'
 
 R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22) -- "Vigorous Calisthenics"
 Copyright (C) 2022 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
 Platform: x86_64-debian-linux-gnu (64-bit)
 
 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
 You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
 Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
 
 R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
 Type 'contributors()' for more information and
 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
 
 Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
 Type 'q()' to quit R.
 
 > install.packages("tcltk2", repos=3D"http://cran.ch.r-project.org";, depend=
 encies=3DTRUE, lib=3D"/dev/shm/R")
 trying URL 'http://cran.ch.r-project.org/src/contrib/tcltk2_1.2-11.tar.gz'
 Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 833846 bytes (814 KB)
 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
 downloaded 814 KB
 
 * installing *source* package 'tcltk2' ...
 ** package 'tcltk2' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
 ** using staged installation
 ** R
 ** inst
 ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
 ** help
 *** installing help indices
 ** building package indices
 ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
 ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
 ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation pa=
 th
 * DONE (tcltk2)
 
 The downloaded source packages are in
 	'/tmp/Rtmp02UZg8/downloaded_packages'
 >=20
 
 I have to wonder if the current value of DISPLAY should leak into
 pkgsrc builds at all.
 
 --=20
 Dr. Thomas Orgis
 HPC @ Universit=C3=A4t Hamburg