R-beta: base not loading

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

>     PaulG> (PS. There also seem to be some problems making the f2c with gcc
>     PaulG> 2.8.1. I've been using g77 so that isn't the problem.)
> 
> NOTE: Looking at  RHOME/library/base/R/base (which is the R file that is
> 	NOT correctly loaded by the internal C code),
>       I now bet, that it is  .Alias(.)  which is failing;  more exactly,
>       line 64
> 	------------------------------------------------------
> 	colours <- .Alias(colors)
> 	------------------------------------------------------
>    
>       That's (the only way?) how the error message
> 	------------------------------------------------------
> 	Error: Object "colors" not found 
> 	------------------------------------------------------
>       can emerge...
> 
> [[this may help find gcc's problem, maybe...]]

While messing around with a Windows cross-compile, I realized that
this can also happen if colorstuff.R occurs before New-Internal.R in
the base file. The former has:

## nice to the English
colours <- colors

And the latter has

colors <- function().Internal(colors())
colours <- .Alias(colors)

Now, if ls gets the idea of sorting differently on some platforms,
which is not at all unlikely - Ripley reported something about locale
settings resulting in the collating sequence AaBbCc..., and he *is*
using Sol2.6! - then all hell breaks loose.

The thing in colorstuff.R is simply wrong, so I'll remove it.

PS: No, the 0.62.3 crosscompile doesn't work (yet?).

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