[Rd] (Debian Bug 344248): R segfaults when pressing Delete (PR#8422)

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Wed Dec 21 15:48:25 CET 2005


<ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> Can you confirm you are running rl5.1?  Given the segfault is readline not 

Yes: readline 5.1, just like the bug submitter (see at the very bottom).

> compatible version of a dynamic library so it seems to me the bug should 
> be assigned to readline not R.

Looks like it, yes. And from looking at http://bugs.debian.org/libreadline5
it seems that the same behaviour was just found with gdb.

Thanks for the quick replies!

Dirk

> > | ii  libreadline-ru 1.8.3+1.8.4pre Readline interface for Ruby 1.8
> > | ii  libreadline4   4.3-18         GNU readline and history libraries, 
run-time
> > | un  libreadline4-d <none>         (no description available)
> > | ii  libreadline5   5.1-1          GNU readline and history libraries, 
run-time
> > | ii  libreadline5-d 5.1-1          GNU readline and history libraries, 
developm
> > | ii  r-base         2.2.1-1        GNU R statistical computing language 
and env
> > | ii  r-base-core    2.2.1-1        GNU R core of statistical computing 
language



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