On Friday 27 Jun 2003 18:36, John W. Eaton wrote: > On 27-Jun-2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > | > e) The most helpful error message we can generate is: > | > > | > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > | > 0x400dd7fe in _rl_dispatch_subseq () > | > from > | > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so.4 > | > > | > implying that there is some strange interaction going on with readline, > | > and that the bug may be in readline rather than R. > | > > | > f) The bug does not seem to be present in R-1.6.2, though this is only > | > my experience, not anyone elses. Peter Dalgaard HAS reproduced the bug > | > in R-1.7.0. > | > | ..and I just now found a SuSE machine still running 1.6.0 which is > | also immune to the problem. > > What version of readline is linked to R 1.6.0 on that system? Probably version 4.1 --- I remember in the past always having to install the readline41-4.1-xx package to get R to work. Perhaps Martyn should go back to linking against that in the short term until the bug in readline can be squashed? Or does R-1.7.x need some additional functionality provided by readline-4.3?
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