[Rd] Re: R-1.5.0 on NetBSD (PR#1566)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 17 May 2002 Ray.Brownrigg@mcs.vuw.ac.nz wrote:

> Firstly I omitted the following information from my original message:
>
> R is now configured for i386--netbsdelf
>
>   Source directory:          .
>   Installation directory:    /usr/pkg
>   C compiler:                cc  -mieee-fp -I/mnt/scratch/pkgsrc/math/R/work.i386/.buildlink/include -O2 -I/usr/pkg/share/x11-links/include
>   C++ compiler:              c++  -mieee-fp -I/mnt/scratch/pkgsrc/math/R/work.i386/.buildlink/include -I/mnt/scratch/pkgsrc/math/R/work.i386/.buildlink/include -O2 -I/usr/pkg/share/x11-links/include
>   FORTRAN compiler:          /mnt/scratch/pkgsrc/math/R/work.i386/.buildlink/bin/f2c-f77 -O
>   X11 support:               yes
>   Gnome support:             no
>   Tcl/Tk support:            yes
>   Readline support:          yes
>
>   R profiling support:       yes
>   R as a shared library:     no
>
>
> Secondly, a workaround patch is the following:
>
> --- src/main/unzip.h.orig       Mon Feb  4 11:48:57 2002
> +++ src/main/unzip.h
> @@ -49,6 +49,16 @@
>  #include "zlib.h"
>  #endif
>
> +/* Fudge for NetBSD's replacement of OF by __P in zconf.h */
> +
> +#ifndef OF /* function prototypes */
> +#  ifdef STDC
> +#    define OF(args)  args
> +#  else
> +#    define OF(args)  ()
> +#  endif
> +#endif
> +

Thanks. That extract is taken directly from zconf.h in the official
version, so do I gather that NetNSD has gratuitously removed it?

R assumes ISO C, so we don't need the test for STDC.

This is surely a bug in NetBSD and not in R, so I hope you have also filed
a NetBSD bug report.  I've add the comment

/* workaround for NetBSD vandalism on zconf.h */

and that seems a reasonable description to me (and a lot less rude
that some comments about other OSes legitimate differences in the R
sources).

Brian

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