bug#39204: r-rgdal: Reading of vector GIS data causes segfault

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Arun,

First, your patch does not apply. Because it should be line 21 and not
18 for the addition of your Copyright.


On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 20:42, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:

> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build r-rgdal

I get the same message than I previously sent:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39204#26


> $ ./pre-inst-env guix environment --container --ad-hoc r r-rgdal -- Rscript -e 'library(rgdal); dsn <- system.file("vectors", package = "rgdal")[1]; ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="cities")'

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Loading required package: sp
rgdal: version: 1.4-8, (SVN revision 845)
 Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
 Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 3.0.2, released 2019/10/28
 Path to GDAL shared files:
 GDAL binary built with GEOS: TRUE
 Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 6.2.0, September 1st, 2019, [PJ_VERSION: 620]
 Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)
 Linking to sp version: 1.4-0
Source: "/gnu/store/m4rd975j3979zqqqfwg3b7s070i3n3h3-r-rgdal-1.4-8/site-library/rgdal/vectors",
layer: "cities"
Driver: ESRI Shapefile; number of rows: 606
Feature type: wkbPoint with 2 dimensions
Extent: (-165.27 -53.15) - (177.1302 78.2)
CRS: +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
LDID: 0
Number of fields: 4
        name type length  typeName
1       NAME    4     40    String
2    COUNTRY    4     12    String
3 POPULATION   12     11 Integer64
4    CAPITAL    4      1    String
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


But as we have talked before, there is an issue about the upstream
test suite of the package (point 1. of [1]). So I am investigating...


[1]  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=39204#26


All the best,
simon