Message-ID: <49397107.2060004@fhcrc.org>
Date: 2008-12-05T18:20:55Z
From: Hervé Pagès
Subject: Recent snapshot tarballs of R-devel don't compile
In-Reply-To: <18744.56329.489440.432766@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Hi Martin,
Martin Maechler wrote:
[...]
> BDR> Maybe, in which case running tools/link-recommended
> BDR> will fix it. Works for me with the snapshot mentioned
> BDR> above.
>
> Yes.
>
> But also we know that we don't want to require that from people
> working with the tarball.
Yes, and that's one of the reasons we use these tarballs for the
Bioconductor build system. They are a little bit more convenient
than pulling the source from svn.
>
>
> The question remains why the automated build procedures ... that
> I have setup and have been running for years,
> suddenly fail to put the *.tgz symbolic links into
> src/library/Recommended/ as they used to.
I don't know what OS this procedure is running on but maybe 'tar'
started to do some strange strings with symlinks after an OS
update/upgrade...
Thanks,
H.
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