bug in R-1.5.1 for Mac OS X installer (PR#1825)

[kkuroda@crl.ucsd.edu]

Hi,

Thanks for developing an outstanding software for free. I admire all your 
effort greatly. I would like to submit a bug report on the R-1.5.1 
installer (in .mpkg, .pkg format) for Mac OS X.

I'm using fink in conjunction with Darwin. In my environment, /usr/local is 
symbolically linked to /sw which is fink's main directory. This is to 
conform the directory structure on my machine to the standard UNIX/Linux 
one.

It turned out that R-1.5.1 installer ignores the symbolic link and creates 
new /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib directories on their own, thereby 
installing all its stuff into them. This is really annoying. (Actually, 
after installing R, bash stopped running. At first, I couldn't figure out 
at all what happened. It turned out that bash failed to runs because it 
lost access dynamic libraries in /usr/local/lib directory.)

I hope the installer properly follows symbolic links during installation.

Cheers,
Kow


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