[R] library() crashes R

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Ray Brownrigg <Ray.Brownrigg at mcs.vuw.ac.nz> writes:

> > > library(ssOptim)
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> This turned out to be the existence of WRITE statements in one of the
> fortran subroutines. 

Aha! That's probably what has been going wrong with the akima package
as well. That one has been puzzling me for a while since it crashes on
stock RH6.2 (egcs 2.91.66), but not when using the gcc 2.95 compilers.

> This seemed to result in an undefined symbol
> which, when the .so file was created explicitly from a Makefile in the
> package source directory, caused the crash.

Thank you very much for sorting that one out!

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