R 0.63 testers help: Please "(cd tests; make print-tests.Rout)"
Martin Maechler
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:44:30 +0100
R 0.63 only
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(0.62 does not have the print-tests.Rout.save against which to diff!)
I'd be glad if some of you could help us find out some printing/formatting
differences of the same R version on different architectures.
I have the suspiscion that the new glibc aka libc-6 (Linux),
has changed some of the internal printing/formatting code [fprintf ..].
One consequence is that on Debian 2.0 systems,
(cd tests; make print-tests.Rout)
gives lots of diff output, when it works okay, on Solaris 2.5.x.
If you want help us (R core developers),
1) have a fairly recent version of R-0.63 ["unstable"], or get it from
CRAN : src/devel/R-devel.tar.gz
2) After "./configure; make" (need now both again),
type
(cd tests; make print-tests.Rout)
i) If you get no output after the line
./Rdiff print-tests.Rout ./print-tests.Rout.save
please report something like
uname -a (and or tell me how your Linux distribution is called)
gcc -v (or the version of your C compiler, if not gcc)
ii) If you *DO* get diff output after the line
./Rdiff print-tests.Rout ./print-tests.Rout.save
send this output -- in addition to the OS / C version (as above)
------> Reply to me with these outputs, I'll summarize to R-devel!
{{ 3) You may also try
make check
which runs much more "tests",
and report to R-core@stat.math.ethz.ch if you have problems
}}
Thank you for your support of R development!
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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