[Rd] Update on "Shift-Return causes segfault (PR#3293)"

[Graeme Ambler]

On Friday 27 Jun 2003 18:36, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 27-Jun-2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> | Graeme.Ambler at bristol.ac.uk writes:
> | > e) The most helpful error message we can generate is:
> | >
> | > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> | > 0x400dd7fe in _rl_dispatch_subseq ()
> | >    from
> | > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/../../../libreadline.so.4
> | >
> | > implying that there is some strange interaction going on with readline,
> | > and that the bug may be in readline rather than R.
> | >
> | > f) The bug does not seem to be present in R-1.6.2, though this is only
> | > my experience, not anyone elses.  Peter Dalgaard HAS reproduced the bug
> | > in R-1.7.0.
> |
> | ..and I just now found a SuSE machine still running 1.6.0 which is
> | also immune to the problem.
>
> What version of readline is linked to R 1.6.0 on that system?
Probably version 4.1 --- I remember in the past always having to install the 
readline41-4.1-xx package to get R to work.  Perhaps Martyn should go back to 
linking against that in the short term until the bug in readline can be 
squashed?  Or does R-1.7.x need some additional functionality provided by 
readline-4.3?

Graeme.