Thanks, Peter, and Prof. Ripley. My efforts last night was mostly futile except that it told me about the embedded newline in Built field.
Prof. Ripley: how do I get your fixes? Can I just download R-2.0.0-patched? Rajiv -------- Rajiv Prasad Scientist, Hydrology Group Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, MSIN K9-33 Richland, WA 99352 Voice: (509) 375-2096 Fax: (509) 372-6089 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:59 AM To: Peter Dalgaard Cc: Prasad, Rajiv; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem Compiling R-2.0.0 on Linux Alpha 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