[Rd] (PR#7276) Re: Bug#275791: r-gnome: gnome library can not be read

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 08:15:43AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 edd at debian.org wrote:
> 
> > Dear R bug fixers,
> > 
> > This came in early this morning. The R/Gnome configuration, and selection of
> > libraries hat not changed one bit since I last built 1.9.1 -- but maybe
> > something change in the Gmome/Glib/Gtk, or even x11, libraries? Would anyone
> > know where RestoreAction is defined?
> 
> It was in bin/R.bin in 1.9.1, and is not in bin/exec/R in 2.0.0
> 
> gannet% nm -pg bin/R.bin | grep RestoreAction
> 0826da30 D RestoreAction
> 
> Grepping the sources shows it is defined in 
> 
> src/main/startup.c:static SA_TYPE       RestoreAction = SA_RESTORE;
> src/modules/gnome/system.c:extern SA_TYPE RestoreAction;
> 
> and removing the `static' solves this for me.  I guess no alpha/beta 

Thanks you very much -- that minimal change also solves it for me. 

> tester used the GNOME interface ....

Yup.

> Fixed in R-patched and R-devel now.

And fixed Debian packages are being uploaded now.

Thanks again,  Dirk

> 
> 
> > 
> > The list of Debian packages on which r-gnome depends is below; as this is
> > computed from ldd output I won't add that direct ldd output, but would be
> > glad to supply it as well as other information if it could aid in fixing this.
> > 
> > Thanks, Dirk
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:41:41AM +0200, Wouter Leonard de Vries wrote:
> > > Package: r-gnome
> > > Version: 2.0.0-1
> > > Severity: grave
> > > Justification: renders package unusable
> > > 
> > > 
> > > when trying to start r-gnome I get the following message:
> > > 
> > > Fatal error: The GNOME shared library could not be loaded.
> > >   The error was /usr/lib/R/modules/R_gnome.so: undefined symbol:
> > >   RestoreAction
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- System Information:
> > > Debian Release: 3.1
> > >   APT prefers unstable
> > >   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> > > Architecture: i386 (i686)
> > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
> > > Locale: LANG=nl_NL, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL
> > > 
> > > Versions of packages r-gnome depends on:
> > > ii  gdk-imlib1                1.9.14-16      imaging library for use with gtk (
> > > ii  libart2                   1.4.2-19       The GNOME canvas widget - runtime 
> > > ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
> > > ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.2-1        A high-quality block-sorting file 
> > > ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-17   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> > > ii  libdb3                    3.2.9-20       Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
> > > ii  libesd0                   0.2.34-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
> > > ii  libglade-gnome0           1:0.17-3       Library to load .glade files at ru
> > > ii  libglade0                 1:0.17-3       Library to load .glade files at ru
> > > ii  libglib1.2                1.2.10-9       The GLib library of C routines
> > > ii  libgnome32                1.4.2-19       The GNOME libraries
> > > ii  libgnomesupport0          1.4.2-19       The GNOME libraries (Support libra
> > > ii  libgnomeui32              1.4.2-19       The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
> > > ii  libgtk1.2                 1.2.10-17      The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
> > > ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
> > > ii  libncurses5               5.4-4          Shared libraries for terminal hand
> > > ii  libpcre3                  4.5-1.1        Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
> > > ii  libreadline4              4.3-13         GNU readline and history libraries
> > > ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
> > > ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
> > > ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
> > > ii  libxi6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Input extension li
> > > ii  libxml1                   1:1.8.17-8     GNOME XML library
> > > ii  r-base-core               2.0.0-1        GNU R core of statistical computin
> > > ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
> > > ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-1      compression library - runtime
> > > 
> > > -- no debconf information
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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