[R] R --gnome segfaults on RH 6.0 with R-0.65.0

[Alexander Volovics]

On 30-Aug-99 I wrote: 

>> Libgdk? 
>> The only packages I know of with gdk/libgdk files
>> are `gtk+' and `gtk+10' and neither contain `gdkfont.c'.

To which Prof Brian D Ripley and Peter Dalgaard replied:

> No, binary rpms will not contain source files, will they?

> Try 'nm /usr/lib/libgdk.a | grep font' and I think you will see the
> light...

I (just barely, as a non programmer) know the differences between
foo.c, foo.o, foo.h, foo.a files but I got carried away (non thinkingly)
by the error messages:

  Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkfont.c: line 174 (gdk_font_id): assertion
  `font != NULL' failed.

However what has `gdkfont.c' got to do with it in THIS context?

Further I wrote:

>> This is what I have:
>> gnome-libs-1.0.12-1 & gnome-libs-devel-1.0.12-1
>> gtk+-1.2.3-1 & gtk+-devel-1.2.3-1
>> gtk+10-1.0.6-5
>> glib-1.2.3-1 & glib-devel-1.2.3-1
>> libglade-0.3-1 & libglade-devel-0.3-1
>> libxml-1.4.0-1 & libxml-devel-1.4.0-1

To which Prof Brian D Ripley and Peter Dalgaard replied:

> That's a later gnome-libs than I have.
 
> libglade-0.4-SNAP
> libglade-devel-0.4-SNAP
> I'd say libglade is the culprit...

I have just made the libglade-0.4-SNAP and libglade-devel-0.4-SNAP rpm's
and recompiled R-0.65.0. The same thing happens with `R --gnome', namely:
Segmentation fault (core dumped), with the same error messages.

So the culprit is not libglade but maybe `gnome-libs-1.0.12-1' given that
you both have an earlier gnome-libs. Or maybe even something else.

I am not going to pursue this further as it takes too much time. I was just
curious how the R gnome interface had progressed.

Thank you both very much for taking the time to respond.

Should I report it as a bug or is it not worth it given the
`moving target' status of the gnome libs and the `work in progress'
status of the R gnome interface?


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Alexander Volovics
Dept of Methodology & Statistics
Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL
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