Dear Peter, Duncan &al, Yes, with --enable-R-shlib && make things seem to work: R is able to load both olden and newly installed libraries. Some baffling details remain: - I am sure that I never earlier enabled this when building R, but now it seems to be necessary for loading old libraries. I don't know why. - Binary upgrading of rpm's (1.5.1 -> 1.6.0) in my RH7.3 is incompatible with old libraries, and these must be re-installed (or R must be built from the source with --enable-R-shlib). It seems that ./configure with default switches gives different configuration (although it doesn't say so). "Undocumented behaviour" may be good phrase here. cheers, jari oksanen
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