On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 10:53 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Dominick Samperi wrote: >> >>> Building R 2.3.0 fails under Red Hat 9.0 because >>> ssize_t is not defined in src/modules/internet/sock.h. >>> Inserting #include <sys/types.h> at the top of this >>> file fixes the problem. >> >> That's interesting: POSIX says it must be defined in unistd.h, and that is >> included before sock.h in all the C files AFAICS (and this is why all the >> Unix-alike platforms tested before release do compile that module). >> >> It's a bug in RH9 (there seems to be no 9.0), and that is maintained by >> Fedora Legacy -- do they have an update? > > Prior to RH 9 (ie. RH 8.0), there were fractional releases with updates. > However, with 9, while updates were provided, the numbering scheme > changed to integer releases only and this is still the case with FC. > > Fedora Legacy's raison d'etre is to provide security updates but not > necessarily functional updates and/or general bug fixes. This seems to > be the case for RH 9 if one reviews the list of updates that they have > provided to date: > > http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/RH9/ > > There is no guarantee from the FL folks as to how long they will support > older releases beyond the roughly 1.5 years post EOL for a prior version > of RH/FC. This is articulated in their "1-2-3 and out" policy and we are > well beyond the 1.5 years for RH 9. > > Seeing Peter's response on SuSE 8.0, one of the things that might be in > common here is the use of the 2.4 series kernels. Was there a change of > some sort with the 2.6 kernels that would impact this situation?
I have no idea, but have modified the sock.h to have a belt-and-braces approach. I'll say once again how unfortunate it is that people do not report things like this prior to release. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
