RODBC patchlet

Kurt Hornik Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:18:57 +0100


>>>>>   writes:

> Much more is needed.  I do plan to do produce an update fairly soon,
> and as I don't have any current use of this under Unix, I will run it
> by you if I may.

Great news!  Thanks for taking this up, Brian.

Best
-k

> Brian

> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>> 
>> [ Disclaimer: Yes, I do know that RODBC is in a state of minor limbo as far
>> as maintenance is concerned. But it is also useful, and used, which is why I
>> hope that someone might apply the small change outlined below. ]
>> 
>> The current version in CRAN's devel directories fails to build under R 1.6.1
>> (beta from Oct 27):
>> 
>> chibud:/home/edd/RODBC# R CMD INSTALL .
>> * Installing *source* package 'RODBC' ...
>> creating cache ./config.cache
>> checking for library containing SQLTables... -lodbc
>> updating cache ./config.cache
>> creating ./config.status
>> creating src/Makevars
>> ** libs
>> gcc -I/usr/lib/R/include   -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c RODBC.c -o RODBC.o
>> RODBC.c:22: parse error
>> make: *** [RODBC.o] Error 1
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RODBC'
>> 
>> My quick solution was to #ifdef the following block of RODBC.c away:

> Well, the 160update.txt on the developer site (and the NEWS file) tells
> you that you need to include Rversion.h.

>> #if 0
>> #if R_VERSION < R_Version(1, 2, 0)
>> # define STRING_ELT(x,i)        (STRING(x)[i])
>> # define VECTOR_ELT(x,i)        (VECTOR(x)[i])
>> # define SET_STRING_ELT(x,i,v)  (STRING(x)[i] = (v))
>> # define SET_VECTOR_ELT(x,i,v)  (VECTOR(x)[i] = (v))
>> #endif
>> #endif
>> 
>> I'm sure there is a nicer solution, but it is immediately apparent to me. The
>> gcc version which puked is 2.95.4 as in Debian testing.
>> 
>> Dirk
>> 
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