Skip to content

Possibly fixed R GUI, please test

1 message · Simon Urbanek

#
Saptarshi,
On May 2, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Saptarshi Guha wrote:

            
Sure: Info.plist in the GUI used to set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to $R_HOME/ 
lib for historical reasons - this was necessary before we started  
linking libR.dylib with the full path (AFAIR that was R 2.0.0 or  
earlier). R 2.3.0 now comes with custom gcc libraries (from gcc  
4.0.3) thus setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH overrides the default search  
path so the corresponding system libraries are no longer used even if  
other applications require them.
My tests didn't show it, because it doesn't hurt a vanilla system -  
R.app works and there are no other modules, but if the user installed  
some extra modules that are loaded at run-time (e.g. input helpers,  
haxies etc.), those require the system version of the libraries, so  
they fail, sometimes even killing R.app as well.

Cheers,
Simon