From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Sun Oct 17 14:58:54 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Sun Oct 17 14:59:01 2004
Subject: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem Compiling R-2.0.0 on Linux Alpha
In-Reply-To: <x23c0d8st0.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410171339150.13116-100000@gannet.stats>

On 17 Oct 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> This is not an architecture-specific bug at all, it just happens to be
> tickled by the specific length of "alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu"!
> 
> I'm unsure whether the problem is in read.dcf or whether
> split_description could just use strsplit(Built, ";[ \n]") and begone
> with it. The latter should be a workaround for you in either case.

The problem is in .install_package_description: the Built: field must not 
be split across lines.  (The newline does not have to added after ;, so 
your fix is not 100% adequate.)

I've fixed .install_package_description.

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