On 29 Jul 2003, Peter Rye wrote: > I'm trying to get R running on OpenBSD/alpha. > > I've applied some configure patches which I've previously sent to the > R-devel list to allow R to compile on an OpenBSD ELF platform (which > OpenBSD/alpha is, as the i386 port soon will be). > > The patched source compiles without problems, and appears to run and > perform properly apart from two (possibly unrelated) problems. > > 1) On startup there are complaints about mismatched symbol sizes (see > below). This error message comes from the OpenBSD ld.so, and doesn't > occur on OpenBSD/i386. > > On further investigation this seems to occur when the modreg and ts > packages are loaded together. In both packages, the R_*MethodDef arrays > are declared globally rather than "static const". Changing these > declarations to static const results in the warning disappearing. I > think this is *probably* a correct fix. Am I missing something or am I > talking/writing garbage. The patch is straightforward, I can send it to > one of you if you wish - then again perhaps it's not the right fix.
It's OK for those arrays to be static, and I am adding that to places where they are not (modreg, tools, ts) -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
