On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount > Version: 2.3.0, 2.3.1 > OS: Linux
That's not adequate information: see below. > Submission from: (NULL) (171.66.155.86) > > > libc used to export the symbol: > > __libc_stack_end; > > however, newer versions of libc no longer export it. R has some serious Please tell us what these `newer versions of libc' are. >g<libc does on e.g. 2.3.6 and 2.4, which is AFAICS current. > problems around this, because the code has: > > # ifdef linux > extern void * __libc_stack_end; > # endif > > > and > > #if defined(linux) > R_CStackStart = (uintptr_t) __libc_stack_end; > #elif defined(HAVE_KERN_USRSTACK) > > > in r-2.3.1/src/unix/system.c > > This code needs to be fixed. It is causing all sorts of problems when trying > to > run R across multiple systems with different libc versions. What are the 'all sorts of problems'? It seems they are affecting no one else, and R is very widely used on Linux systems. So there is nothing here we can reproduce. -- 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
