[R] Build of XML package failed

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Hi Luis.

You can change the two lines

 PROBLEM buf
    WARN;

to the one line

  warning(buf);


That should compile.

If not, please show us the compilation command for DocParse.c, i.e. all the arguments
to the compiler, just above the error messages.

 D.

Luis Tito de Morais wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> It may be a FAQ, but I searched the web and Uni of Newcastle Maths and Stats and
> R mailing list archive on this issue but was unable to find a solution. I would
> appreciate any pointer to help me solving this.
> 
> I am using R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) on linux mandriva 2010.0
> 
> I tried to install the XML_2.6-0.tar.gz package both with
> install.packages('XML', dep=T) from within R and the R CMD INSTALL using a
> local tar.gz file.
> 
> I am having the following error message (sorry it is partly in french):
> 
> Dans le fichier inclus à partir de DocParse.c:13:
> Utils.h:175:2: attention : #warning "Redefining COPY_TO_USER_STRING to use
> encoding from XML parser"
> DocParse.c: In function ‘notifyError’:
> DocParse.c:1051: erreur: le format n'est pas une chaîne littérale et pas
> d'argument de format
> 
> This last error message means:
> "error: format not a string literal and no format arguments"
> 
> In the past when having such errors with other packages, I have been able to
> solve it with the help of this tip:
> http://mario79t.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/warning-format-not-a-string-literal-and-no-format-arguments/
> 
> and modifying the faulty source file accordingly.
> 
> But in this specific case, I have been unable to find what to modify in the
> source file. Line 1051 in the DocParse.c source file only has the command
> "WARN". I don't know anything about C programming and could not figure out what
> to modify in this case.
> 
> I would appreciate any help on this issue.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tito
> 
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