Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes: > Well, Dirk has said to have given his last reply on this thread. > I (as a member of R-core) am glad about people like Dirk who > take some of our load and helpfully answer such > questions/reports on R-devel.
I am glad too. Thank you. My ultimate goal is to ensure that R works as well on FreeBSD as it does elsewhere. It mostly just works (again, appreciative), but there are a few challenges because some R conventions and some FreeBSD conventions may collide. Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> writes: > Consider eg this: > edd@max:~$ locate Matrix.so > /usr/lib/R/library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so > /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so > /usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/library/Matrix/libs/Matrix.so > edd@max:~$ > I have three versions of Matrix.so. And still not problem. The third one > only enters for R-devel, not R. The first two are distinguished by R itself > _by virtue of different paths_ just like Martin and I told you. > And _no_ other program on my system knows about Matrix.so: > edd@max:~$ ldconfig -p | grep Matrix.so > edd@max:~$ ldconfig -p | wc -l > 2814 > edd@max:~$ > ldd / ldconfig do NOT know Matrix.so -- as I told you before -- despite the > fact that they know thousands of other things on this (development) machine. For a frequently-updated Debian package repository, I assume you _manually_ bump all the Debian R packages whenever the main R package is upgraded. Is that correct? That is, when a Debian user upgrades the r-base package from, say, version 3.2.5 to 3.3.1, then r-cran-tseries must/should be rebuilt/reinstalled against the new R package? If so, maybe there is something useful we could submit. I will have to study how R uses autotools, because that also seems a bit different than I am used to. I also notice that on Debian you make a soft link of /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so to /usr/lib/libR.so. Given all that has been discussed, I am unclear why. Thank you for sticking with the thread, Joseph
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