On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 14:23 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Thanks Prof. Ripley and Ei-Ji. I should have mentioned that all the > > > versions I reported for were self-compiled, and I did so with the same > > > set of flags as the FC5 rpm. Will add that to the list in my head of > > > things to report. > > > > (I think this is probably FC5's flags being over-zealous, but Ei-ji > > Nakama may know better.) > > Probably not all that over-zealous. If you're smashing the stack you're > smashing the stack. It's not always fatal, but worth fixing. > > I actually have the same set of standard FC5 flags in config.site. > Without them, we risk Fedora Extra to come out with issues that we > missed, since they use those flags as a matter of policy. > > > >> BTW, just applying this patch will not work: you need to rebuild gram.c > > >> in maintainer mode. > > > > > > I'm not clear what you mean by maintainer mode - not something I have > > > come across before. If I update the local source on my machine from the > > > svn server, and make clean, configure and make again, will this be > > > sufficient? Or do I need to do something else? > > > > Yes, now. Before the patch was applied you need to configure with > > --enable-maintainer-mode. > > I.e., if the maintainers have done their job maintaining things, they > will have ensured that gram.c was built from gram.y and > non-maintainers need to do nothing further. If you play with gram.y, > you need make sure rebuilding takes place, most easily by configuring > in maintainer-mode. > > The fundamental issue is that there are some build tools we don't want > to assume that everybody has (here: YACC/Bison), and also that build > times don't usually survive SVN checkouts, so gram.y may well appear > to be more recent than gram.c.
Dear Prof. Ripley and Peter, Thanks for explaining the maintainer mode and reasoning behind using it. G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC & ENSIS, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
