[Rd] Re: [R] Problem Compiling R-2.0.0 on Linux Alpha

[Prasad, Rajiv]

Thanks, Prof. Ripley.  I downloaded the new admin.R and used that in
place of one in R-2.0.0 build directory.  The compile went fine.  So,
for the record, R-2.0.0 + Prof. Ripley's fixed admin.R compiles fine on
"alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu".

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> version
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platform alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu
arch     alphapca56
os       linux-gnu
system   alphapca56, linux-gnu
status
major    2
minor    0.0
year     2004
month    10
day      04
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Rajiv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 9:47 AM
> To: Prasad, Rajiv
> Cc: Peter Dalgaard; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem Compiling R-2.0.0 on Linux Alpha
> 
> 
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Prasad, Rajiv wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Peter, and Prof. Ripley.
> > 
> > My efforts last night was mostly futile except that it told 
> me about 
> > the embedded newline in Built field.
> > 
> > Prof. Ripley: how do I get your fixes?  Can I just download 
> > R-2.0.0-patched?
> 
> Yes, tomorrow's tarball unless you want to get it from the 
> SVN archive. The change is in src/library/tools/R/admin.R and 
> looks like
> 
>     Built <-
>         paste("R ",
>               paste(R.version[c("major", "minor")],
>                     collapse = "."),
>               "; ",
>               if(file_test("-d", file.path(dir, "src"))) OStype
>               else "",
>               "; ",
>               ## Prefer date in ISO 8601 format.
>               ## Could also use
>               ##   format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %X %Y")
>               Sys.time(),
>               "; ",
>               .OStype(),
>               sep = "")
> 
>     ## we must not split the Built: field across lines
>     writeLines(c(formatDL(names(db), db, style = "list"),
>                  paste("Built", Built, sep=": ")),
>                file.path(outDir, "DESCRIPTION"))
>     db["Built"] <- Built
> 
> Obviously I have not tested on an Alphabc...tuvwxyz system 
> but it should 
> work there.
> 
> 
> -- 
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