[R] Newbie questions

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Zsombor Cseres-Gergely wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:27:29PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> 
> > You may want to try "make check" after configuring and compiling R.
> > That should use the postscript graphics device driver rather than
> > anything related to X.  We would be very interested in hearing if that
> > succeeds.
> 
> OK, one good and a bad news. Good news is that R runs with option --gui=none.
> It does demo()-s that does not involve graphics. It does this at a failry good
> speed, and can allocate all my ram (I have not tried more, though)
> 
> Bad news is that make check fails saying: 
> 
> Fatal error: The X11 shared library could not be loaded.
>   The error was /home/zs/R-1.1.1/bin/R_X11.so: undefined symbol: R_GlobalEnv
> 
> Since I am an absplutely non-programmer, I can only say what I have already
> said: X (3.??) is hacked on top of The Hurd, and will be replaced by a newer
> breed (4.??), so I think this is not your problem. However, if you have a
> suggestion, I could try it, and/or pipe the results into Hurd people.

Looks like your build is not importing variables correctly. R_GlobalEnv is
an exported variable that R_X11.so imports.  Does Hurd need any special
treatment for those (some OSes do for variables)?

There are other imported variables, but dlopen often only reports the first
failure.  Looking at R.bin and R_X11.so with nm will probably tell you
what's adrift here.

You can force make check to try harder by adding --gui=none to the
line

R = $(top_builddir)/bin/R --vanilla

in the Makefiles in test.

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