Am Wednesday 22 October 2008 20:17:13 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Michael Rutter wrote: > > I maintain Ubuntu packages on CRAN for amd64. Today, the new version of > > R (2.8.0) came out, and I am unable to build an rkward package based > > around 2.8.0. Turns out the decision has been made to remove Rdevices.h > > and Rgraphics.h from the installed portion of R. They still exist in > > the source code, however. Since Rdevices.h is not available to ubuntu, > > the build fails under hardy and intrepid. Same problem with the package > > rpy. > > > > Not sure what the fix is, but at this point I think we are going to > > release R 2.8.0 builds for ubuntu without an update to rkward. Would > > have found this sooner, but testing packages is one of the last things > > on the list. > > thanks for pointing this out! > > I'm still extremely short on time (and on a dialup connection). For all I > can see, the fix is as easy as removing the line > #include "Rdevices.h" > from rbackend/rembedinternal.cpp (around line 90). It simply was not really > needed, an now it breaks things. So, the fix is simple enough, however, I > won't get around to roll fixed packages too soon. Still, if you are a > package maintainer, you will know how to release a fixed package. I'd > appreciate it a lot, if you could look into that! > > Note: I did not actually download and check R 2.8.0, so possibly other > things are borken as well. As for the missing header, the solution is > simply to remove the include line as detailed above. > > Regards > Thomas
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