[Rd] malloc error in tab-completion: OS X

[peter dalgaard]

On Oct 7, 2012, at 21:00 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> I would check the version of libreadline you compiled against.  Tab completion involves that library.
> 
> It works correctly for all my local builds, and nothing in that area in the R sources has changed for a long time.  I believe I am using http://r.research.att.com/libs/readline-5.2-12-darwin8-bin4.tar.gz .
> And this is on Lion whereas Simon is building on Leopard (AFAIK).

And Peter is building on Snow Leopard with AFAICT same libreadline:

$ ls /usr/local/lib/libreadline*
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.2.dylib	/usr/local/lib/libreadline.a
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.5.dylib	/usr/local/lib/libreadline.dylib

and has no issues with tools::<TAB>

BTW: readline is configurable. There wouldn't happen to be a rogue .inputrc around by any chance?


> 
> On 07/10/2012 16:34, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
>> I've just built R-devel (r60889) from source on my Mac OS X 10.6.8
>> using gcc from Xcode and gfortran from Simon. I didn't use all the
>> recommended configuration flags only
>> 
>> ./configure && make
>> 
>> Still, I seem to pass "make check" and
>> "make test-Segfault" in the tests directory with no problem, but the
>> following leads
>> to a persistent error + instant abort.
>> 
>> 1) Start R
>> 2) Type "tools::"
>> 3) Tab to attempt to auto-complete
>> 
>> resulting in some variation on
>> 
>> mweylandt-laptop:~ michaelweylandt$ rDEVEL/bin/R --vanilla -q
>>> tools::R(44436) malloc: *** error for object 0x1006d8700: incorrect checksum for freed object - object was probably modified after being freed.
>> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>> Abort trap
>> 
>> at which point hitting <RET> drops me back into bash. This seems to
>> only occur with tools and no other packages (that I've found). It also
>> occurs whether tools has been library()'d or not, but sometimes it
>> takes two tabbings.
>> 
>> My compiler info follows
>> 
>> mweylandt-laptop:~ michaelweylandt$ gcc --version
>> i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
>> Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> 
>> mweylandt-laptop:~ michaelweylandt$ gfortran --version
>> GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)
>> Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> 
>> I do think that it's only a problem with my local build, as I can't
>> replicate with Simon's nightly builds (http://r.research.att.com/),
>> which are at r60887 currently. Is there anything else I should check
>> with my setup? I don't see any advice on this particular issue in the
>> R installation manual, but I easily could have overlooked it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>> 
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