malloc error in tab-completion: OS X

On 07-10-2012, at 17:34, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:

I've just built R-devel (r60889) from source on my Mac OS X 10.6.8
using gcc from Xcode and gfortran from Simon. I didn't use all the
recommended configuration flags only

.....
My compiler info follows

mweylandt-laptop:~ michaelweylandt$ gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

mweylandt-laptop:~ michaelweylandt$ gfortran --version
GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I do think that it's only a problem with my local build, as I can't
replicate with Simon's nightly builds (http://r.research.att.com/),
which are at r60887 currently. Is there anything else I should check
with my setup? I don't see any advice on this particular issue in the
R installation manual, but I easily could have overlooked it.

Just a thought.

According to http://r.research.att.com/tools/ shouldn't you be using gcc 5664 on Snow Leopard.
If I read the tools page correctly you seem to be using a Lion version of gcc.
On my 10.6.8 I have

[.../~]: gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

[.../~]: gfortran --version
GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.


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