RH 9 and R 1.7.0 Beta - Errors Resolved
Paul Gilbert wrote:
I don't seem to have this problem on Mandrake 9.1 which has gcc 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk) and using R-1.7.0beta2003-03-31 compiled with the defaults. That is, I get the latter results even without the fix. Paul Gilbert
The only thought that I can offer is that RH has done something to the version of gcc released with RH 9. Martyn and I had an offlist exchange last week and he is going to be installing RH 9 on his home system, if he has not done so already. It will be interesting to see if he can confirm or deny the behavior that I have seen with the "pre-fix" code. If he can, then it would suggest that there is something with the RH 9 version of gcc. If not, then perhaps there is something with my particular install, though I did do a "clean" install and not an upgrade from RH 8.0 and I have installed all RH 9 updates via RHN. Note the specfic details of 'gcc --version' for RH 9: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) The "official" release of 3.2.2 from gcc.gnu.org is dated February 05, 2003. So there is at least some potential for distribution specific issues it would seem. Best regards, Marc Schwartz