[R] Build of XML package failed

Luis Tito de Morais luis.tito-de-morais at ird.sn
Sat Nov 28 10:46:08 CET 2009


Thaks a lot Duncan, it worked !

Luis


Selon Duncan Temple Lang <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu>:

> 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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