On Sat, 1 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please try the r-patched version of R. This is a serious bug in the > > XFree86 4.4.x headers, that we have worked around by adding the lines > > shown > > Thanks very much, Brian, especially for answering on a Saturday. > > I wasn't sure what "r-patched" meant, and the developer page won't load
See the R FAQ: it's the patched release at ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/ > for me (using the link from the main R page), so I just altered the code > as suggested (patch shown below for verification) and it is now compiling > happily away, having jumped over this dataentry.c roadblock smoothly. > > This makes me happy because I told some students the other day that they > should try Fedora Core 2, and that they should use R on it. > > Dan. (below shows the change I made, in accordance with your suggestion) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] X11]$ diff -Naur dataentry.c dataentry.c~ > --- dataentry.c 2004-05-01 13:50:58.504206988 -0300 > +++ dataentry.c~ 2004-03-27 09:46:11.000000000 -0400 > @@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ > > /* don't use X11 function prototypes (which tend to ...): */ > #define NeedFunctionPrototypes 0 > -/* XFree 4.4.0 forgets to define this if NeedFunctionPrototypes=0 */ > -#ifndef _Xconst > -#define _Xconst const > -#endif > #include <X11/X.h> > #include <X11/Xlib.h> > #include <X11/Xutil.h> > > > -- 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
