[Rd] Re: [R] Newbie questions

[Duncan Temple Lang]

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> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 19:36:40 +0000
> From: Zsombor Cseres-Gergely <z.cseres-gergely@ucl.ac.uk>
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> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:27:29PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> 
> > You may want to try "make check" after configuring and compiling R.
> > That should use the postscript graphics device driver rather than
> > anything related to X.  We would be very interested in hearing if that
> > succeeds.
> 
> OK, one good and a bad news. Good news is that R runs with option --gui=none.
> It does demo()-s that does not involve graphics. 

That's good to hear.

> 
> Bad news is that make check fails saying: 
> 
> Fatal error: The X11 shared library could not be loaded.
>   The error was /home/zs/R-1.1.1/bin/R_X11.so: undefined symbol: R_GlobalEnv
> 

Just a quick thought....

Rather than being a problem with X11, it looks like it may be a
problem associated with dlopen() when the R_X11.so library is
explicitly loaded during the initialization. Basically, that `library'
(R_X11.so) has to resolve all of the symbols to which it refers, and
many of them are in the R executable (R.bin). Perhaps the linking and
loading mechanisms in Hurd do not export these symbols from the
application in a way that shared libraries can find them.  Or it may
be as simple as the flag passed to dlopen() not being RTLD_GLOBAL
(although that shouldn't matter).

A mechanism that Luke and I chatted about that could tidy up some of
these things is to link both R.bin and also R_X11.so against libR.so.
So R.bin would consist of a single routine main() that initialized R
and run the mainloop.  As long as this doesn't introduce a noticeable
performance penalty, it might be worth doing to simplify setups like
this one and reduce the dependency on the non-standard behaviour of
dlopen().

 D.

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