On 17 Oct 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > This is not an architecture-specific bug at all, it just happens to be > tickled by the specific length of "alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu"! > > I'm unsure whether the problem is in read.dcf or whether > split_description could just use strsplit(Built, ";[ \n]") and begone > with it. The latter should be a workaround for you in either case.
The problem is in .install_package_description: the Built: field must not be split across lines. (The newline does not have to added after ;, so your fix is not 100% adequate.) I've fixed .install_package_description. -- 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
