On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 11:58:21 +0300 Juhani Numminen <juhaninummin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the other hand, maybe debian/rules of rkward needs to be changed. > The comment at [3] states that setting CC is required for "some > installations of R", but is it required in the Debian package > specifically?
In fact, my approach to fixing this is to remove the specification of CC (and CXX, F77) form R CMD config. This was added, historically, in 2007, when R was forcing GCC 4.2, while GCC 4.1 was still the default, and Ubuntu did not even have GCC 4.1. Since there was some incompatibility between 4.2 and 4.1 (fortran, I believe), linking would fail unless using the same version. Handling this in rules, instead of dependencies was the only way to allow building for debian and ubuntu from the same source, then. It should not be needed, today. A fixed package is on mentors. I cannot upload myself. Lisandro has sponsored the last couple of uploads, and I've contacted him, this morning. (Note that technically, this is also a new upstream release, but the single upstream change is a hotfix to ensure proper installation of translations). Regards Thomas
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