Sometimes R CMD check complains about non-portable compiler settings. To overcome such warning messages, setup a ~/.R/Makevars file with the following content.

# Settings from /etc/R/Makeconf with "non-portable flag(s):"
# ‘-Wdate-time’ ‘-Werror=format-security’ ‘-Wformat’ replaced by -Wall -pedantic
# and without -fdebug-prefix-map=... 
# See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50658198/cran-submission-r-cmd-check-warning-compilation-flags-used
#
# Note: -Wformat-overflow=3 is a non-portable flag, which seems to be used by CRAN check thoug
h
CC=gcc-7 -std=gnu99 ## -Wformat-overflow=3
CFLAGS = -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -mtune=native -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 $(LTO)
CXXFLAGS = -g -O3 -Wall -pedantic -mtune=native -frtti  -Wno-ignored-attributes -Wno-deprecated-declarations -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 $(LTO)
FFLAGS= -g -O2 -mtune=native -Wall -pedantic
FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS

I got the tip from a post on Stackoverflow, and some of the flags are set according to the setup of CRAN check.

History

  • Editted on 25.04., using setup of CRAN check, and use gcc-7