[Rd] complex tests failure

[Tomas Kalibera]

Thanks for the report, handled in configure in 72661 (R-devel).
I'll also port to R-patched.

Best
Tomas

On 05/04/2017 03:49 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
>
> There is no way to control this at runtime.
> We will probably have to add a configure test.
>
> Best,
> Tomas
>
> On 05/04/2017 03:23 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I assume there is no way to control this via. environment variables 
>> or configure settings?  Obviously that would be great for something 
>> like this which affects tests and seems to be a known problem for 
>> older C standard libraries.
>>
>> Best,
>> Kasper
>>
>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Tomas Kalibera 
>> <tomas.kalibera at gmail.com <mailto:tomas.kalibera at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     As a quick fix, you can undefine HAVE_CTANH in complex.c,
>>     somewhere after including config.h
>>     An internal substitute, which is implemented inside complex.c,
>>     will be used.
>>
>>     Best
>>     Tomas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 05/04/2017 02:57 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
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>>         For a while I have been getting that the complex tests fails
>>         on RHEL 6.
>>         The specific issue has to do with tanh (see below for full
>>         output from
>>         complex.Rout.fail).
>>
>>         This is both with the stock compiler (GCC 4.4.7) and a
>>         compiler supplied
>>         through the conda project (GCC 4.8.5).  The compiler supplied
>>         through conda
>>         ends up linking R to certain system files, so the binary is
>>         not completely
>>         independent (although most dynamically linked libraries are
>>         coming from the
>>         conda installation).
>>
>>         A search on R-devel reveals a discussion in April on an issue
>>         reported on
>>         Windows with a bug in tanh in old versions of the GNU C
>>         standard library;
>>         this seems relevant.  The discussion by Martin Maechler
>>         suggest "using R's
>>         internal substitute".  So how do I enable this?  Or does this
>>         requires
>>         updating the C standard library?
>>
>>         ** From complex.Rout.fail
>>
>>             stopifnot(identical(tanh(356+0i), 1+0i))
>>
>>         Error: identical(tanh(356 + (0+0i)), 1 + (0+0i)) is not TRUE
>>         In addition: Warning message:
>>         In tanh(356 + (0+0i)) : NaNs produced in function "tanh"
>>         Execution halted
>>
>>         Best,
>>         Kasper
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