bug in R-1.5.1 for Mac OS X installer (PR#1825)

[Jan de Leeuw]

Hello

Thanks for the report. Do you have

/usr/local->/sw

or

/sw->/usr/local

i.e. which one of the two only exists as a soft link ? Probably /sw,  
i.e.
fink really installs in /usr/local.

It is generally bad to confound /sw and /usr/local, see

http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/general.php#usr-local

The R installer tries to install in /sw (fink stuff) and in /usr/local
(R stuff). It must get confused when it is trying to locate /sw/lib,
deciding this does not exist, then creating it as /usr/local/lib.
Same for /sw/bin. I don't think there is much I can do about it,
it's what the Installer does. I can warn people.

By the way, where was your bash executable ? This was not
overwritten ?

--- Jan


On Monday, Jul 22, 2002, at 16:41 US/Pacific, kkuroda@crl.ucsd.edu  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for developing an outstanding software for free. I admire all  
> your
> effort greatly. I would like to submit a bug report on the R-1.5.1
> installer (in .mpkg, .pkg format) for Mac OS X.
>
> I'm using fink in conjunction with Darwin. In my environment,  
> /usr/local is
> symbolically linked to /sw which is fink's main directory. This is to
> conform the directory structure on my machine to the standard  
> UNIX/Linux
> one.
>
> It turned out that R-1.5.1 installer ignores the symbolic link and  
> creates
> new /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib directories on their own, thereby
> installing all its stuff into them. This is really annoying. (Actually,
> after installing R, bash stopped running. At first, I couldn't figure  
> out
> at all what happened. It turned out that bash failed to runs because it
> lost access dynamic libraries in /usr/local/lib directory.)
>
> I hope the installer properly follows symbolic links during  
> installation.
>
> Cheers,
> Kow
>
>
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