[Rd] R 2.2.2-1 RPM build problem and solution on RH AS 4 x86_64

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Dan Lipsitt wrote:

> I have a dual Xeon x86_64 system running Red Hat AS 4. There are no
> x86_64 rpms in http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/el4/ (the
> i386 ones are a point release behind anyway) , and the fc4 rpms have a
> whole web of dependencies I don't want to pull in. So I decided to
> build http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/R-2.2.1-1.fc3.src.rpm
> .

You might consider the fc3 RPMS: is RHEL4 not closer to FC3 than FC4?
(They may not have made your mirror yet, but they are en route.)

> When I ran rpmbuild. one of the make-check tests failed.

That test is documented to be random and fail sometimes.  Please try it
again.

> from /BUILD/R-2.2.1/tests/p-r-random-tests.Rout.fail:
>> dkwtest("weibull",shape = 1)
> weibull(shape = 1) FAILED
> Error in dkwtest("weibull", shape = 1) : dkwtest failed
> Execution halted
>
> I was able to build the rpm after removing "--enable-r-shlib" from the
> spec file.
>
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/ReadMe says:
> "The new SRPM for R 2.1.1 builds the shared library version of R. This is,
> unfortunately, slower than the version without the shared library."
>
> It doesn't say why, if it's slower, it builds it that way. Can anyone
> shed some light on the subject?

This _is_ discussed in the the R-admin manual, to which the INSTALL file 
refers you.

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