Problem Compiling R-2.0.0 on Linux Alpha

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
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Rajiv Prasad
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-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:59 AM
To: Peter Dalgaard
Cc: Prasad, Rajiv; r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem Compiling R-2.0.0 on Linux Alpha

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,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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