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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:48:25PM +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> <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).

And a new Debian version libreadline5.1-3 (and now 5.1-4) fixes it. I assume
the patch makes it upstream too.

Dirk

> > 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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