[Rd] Latest R-devel build failing on OS X

[Keith O'Hara]

On my machine (iMac w/ El Capitan (10.11.4)), svn rev. 70662 builds without any errors (and the warning I mentioned before is now gone too).

K

> On May 24, 2016, at 6:55 AM, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> 
> 
> Can you (Frederick, Peter, Keith, but ideally others, too)
> confirm that you don't see any problems anymore, when building a
> version of R-devel from sources that are newer 
> than (or equal to)  svn revision 70632 (2016-05-19 10:59:51, see below)?
> 
> I'm asking because the question is open if these should be
> "back ported" to R 3.3.0 patched or not.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> 
>>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>>    on Thu, 19 May 2016 11:02:48 +0200 writes:
> 
>>>>>>  <frederik at ofb.net>
>>>>>>    on Wed, 18 May 2016 15:03:31 -0700 writes:
> 
>>>> Readline <= 6.2 shouldn't require the SIGWINCH patch, so
>>>> if older versions have trouble finding rl_resize_terminal
>>>> then you could wrap a macro around that part.
> 
>>> I find python related patches that use
> 
>>> #ifdef HAVE_RL_RESIZE_TERMINAL
> 
>>> so they must have configured for that.  We could and
>>> probably should do the same, but as a Linux_only guy
>>> currently (even basically only one flavor of Linux), I'd
>>> appreciate others to produce code for that.
> 
>> Actually that was easy (in hindsight.. I took too long!)
>> enough, so I've now committed
> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> r70632 | maechler | 2016-05-19 10:59:51 +0200 (Thu, 19 May 2016) | 1 line
>> Changed paths:
>> M configure
>> M configure.ac
>> M src/include/config.h.in
>> M src/unix/sys-std.c
> 
>> check for rl_resize_terminal() now
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>> ... and Keith should even not see the warning anymore
>> (nor Peter the error, when compiling using readline 5.x instead of 6.[23]).
> 
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