I presume you are talking about RPMs built with --with-system-zlib? That's not recommended in the R-admin manual, and perhaps you can persuade Martyn Plummer not to do it.
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Hi, > > I have got a curious issue with an R package which uses zlib, against > the official binary here: > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/el4/i386/R-2.4.1-1.rh4AS.i386.rpm > on a Redhat EL4 i686 system. > > The problem is that at the end of reading a gzip'ed file within my > C code, gzgetc() returns -1 (no more to read or error) but > gzeof() doesn't return true. Now one can probably jump to conclusion > that this is a zlib problem (or mine), but it is not. Here is > the summary table (my package binary is the same one on the four > 2.4.1 cases below - built against the official EL4 binary on EL4) > > Rver shlib buildhost runhost status of zlib code in mypackage > 2.3.1 no EL4 EL4 ok > 2.4.1 no EL4 EL4 ok > 2.4.1 yes EL4 EL4 broken > 2.4.1 yes EL4 FC6 ok > 2.4.1 yes FC6 FC6 ok > > The most curious part is entry 3 vs 4 - if I just transplant > the official R binary for EL4 and run it on FC6 (x86_64 and > loading the same mypackage i686 binary), then it works. > The dynamic linker on FC6 is very different from all the earlier > redhat releases [and supposedly a lot faster...]. > (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/fc6/en_US/sn-Devel.html#id2956225) > > so it looks like an issue due to a bad interaction for the > combination of both the shlib compile-time option and the EL4 > runtime environment. (e.g. R 2.4.1 is shipped and bundled with > zlib 1.2.3 but EL4 is only equiped with zlib 1.2.1.2...). > > For the moment I'll just recommend anybody who needs to run my > package (snpMatrix in http://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/clayton/software/) > on Redhat EL4 to just build and install R from source, since shlib=no > is the default for compiling from source. > > Anybody has any idea how this strange brokenness of zlib might happen? > > Hin-Tak Leung > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- 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