Build of XML package failed

Hi list,

It may be a FAQ, but I searched the web and Uni of Newcastle Maths and Stats and
R mailing list archive on this issue but was unable to find a solution. I would
appreciate any pointer to help me solving this.

I am using R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) on linux mandriva 2010.0

I tried to install the XML_2.6-0.tar.gz package both with
install.packages('XML', dep=T) from within R and the R CMD INSTALL using a
local tar.gz file.

I am having the following error message (sorry it is partly in french):

Dans le fichier inclus ? partir de DocParse.c:13:
Utils.h:175:2: attention : #warning "Redefining COPY_TO_USER_STRING to use
encoding from XML parser"
DocParse.c: In function ?notifyError?:
DocParse.c:1051: erreur: le format n'est pas une cha?ne litt?rale et pas
d'argument de format

This last error message means:
"error: format not a string literal and no format arguments"

In the past when having such errors with other packages, I have been able to
solve it with the help of this tip:
http://mario79t.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/warning-format-not-a-string-literal-and-no-format-arguments/

and modifying the faulty source file accordingly.

But in this specific case, I have been unable to find what to modify in the
source file. Line 1051 in the DocParse.c source file only has the command
"WARN". I don't know anything about C programming and could not figure out what
to modify in this case.

I would appreciate any help on this issue.

Best regards,

Tito

Hi Luis.

You can change the two lines

 PROBLEM buf
    WARN;

to the one line

  warning(buf);


That should compile.

If not, please show us the compilation command for DocParse.c, i.e. all the
arguments
to the compiler, just above the error messages.

 D.

Luis Tito de Morais wrote:

Hi list,

It may be a FAQ, but I searched the web and Uni of Newcastle Maths and

Stats and

R mailing list archive on this issue but was unable to find a solution. I

would

appreciate any pointer to help me solving this.

I am using R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) on linux mandriva 2010.0

I tried to install the XML_2.6-0.tar.gz package both with
install.packages('XML', dep=T) from within R and the R CMD INSTALL using a
local tar.gz file.

I am having the following error message (sorry it is partly in french):

Dans le fichier inclus ?? partir de DocParse.c:13:
Utils.h:175:2: attention : #warning "Redefining COPY_TO_USER_STRING to use
encoding from XML parser"
DocParse.c: In function ???notifyError???:
DocParse.c:1051: erreur: le format n'est pas une cha??ne litt??rale et pas
d'argument de format

This last error message means:
"error: format not a string literal and no format arguments"

In the past when having such errors with other packages, I have been able

to

solve it with the help of this tip:

and modifying the faulty source file accordingly.

But in this specific case, I have been unable to find what to modify in the
source file. Line 1051 in the DocParse.c source file only has the command
"WARN". I don't know anything about C programming and could not figure out

what

to modify in this case.

I would appreciate any help on this issue.

Best regards,

Tito