[R] XML_1.98-0 fails to build on Debian Lenny with gcc 4.3.2 and R-beta 2.8.0

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Dr Kimpel,

Please remind me where we promised to deliver all these services to
you -- for free, no less -- leading you have such claims on perceived
'service guarantees', at whichever imagined timeliness or whichever
imagines set pf packages.

Had you bothered to check at e.g. 

    http://changelog.debian.net/r-cran-xml

you would have noticed that we generally _do_ provide fresh packages
within 24 hours of their upstream releases.  

If you continue to ignore these packages, and at the same time
continue to waste everybody's time with request for _elementary help_
covered in the manuals as well as numerous times on the lists, well
then you will have to accept that we may, at some point, just ignore you.

Lastly, I _am_ in fact (as part of the Google Summer of Code
mentoring, also unpaid) working on a system to autobuild all of CRAN
into deb packages.  Helping hands would be welcome, but I will not ask
you to join as I don't have the time and patience to explain every
single possible error message to you.

Enjoy all the gifts we keep giving you.

Dirk





On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:25:52PM -0400, Mark Kimpel wrote:
> Dirk,
> 
> Please let me know when you will support nightly builds of R-devel with all
> R and BioConductor packages. I would also need your help syncing my home
> setup with the one that I use on a remote Linux cluster using RHEL 5. For my
> needs, the packages on these two setups need to be exactly the same. I would
> also need your help being able to load either the current release of R and
> the current R-devel with 2 different site-libraries.
> 
> If you are set up to help with this, let me know and I'll get started.
> 
> Lastly, do you think non-Debian Linux users would NOT benefit to the answers
> to my question? It does seem that the problem was my lack of understanding
> of the need for the xlm2-dev libraries, not a Debian specific issue. Or do
> you believe that if I were using another distribution this problem would not
> have occurred? I don't think so, but if you believe that to be the case, it
> would be of interest.
> 
> Ready to get started when you are,
> 
> Mark
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Mark W. Kimpel MD  ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry
> Indiana University School of Medicine
> 
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> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:34:57PM -0400, Mark Kimpel wrote:
> > > Subject pretty much says it all. Wonder if there is there is some code in
> > > XML that the new gcc doesn't like? See output below:
> >
> > You are wondering wronly.
> >
> > > * Installing *source* package 'XML' ...
> > > checking for gcc... gcc
> > > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> > > checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> > > checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> > > checking for suffix of executables...
> > > checking for suffix of object files... o
> > > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> > > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> > > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> > > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> > > checking for sed... /bin/sed
> > > checking for xml2-config... no
> > > Cannot find xml2-config
> > > ERROR: configuration failed for package 'XML'
> > > ** Removing '/home/mkimpel/R_HOME/site-library-2.8.0/XML'
> >
> > You seem to be
> >
> > a) missing the libxml2-dev package for Debian:
> >
> >                sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
> >
> > b) once again ignoring the fact that XML is available for you as a
> >   binary Debian package via
> >
> >                sudo apt-get install r-cran-xml'
> >
> > c) also ignoring the fact that, should you still insist on building it
> >   yourself, that
> >
> >                sudo apt-get build-dep r-cran-xml
> >
> >   would do step a) for you
> >
> > d) forgetting that we repeatedly recommended r-sig-debian as a more
> >   suitable mailing list to you.
> >
> > Stunned,  Dirk
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Mark W. Kimpel MD  ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry
> > > Indiana University School of Medicine
> > >
> > > 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN  46074
> > >
> > > (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail
> > > (317) 399-1219  Home
> > > Skype:  mkimpel
> > >
> > > "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." --
> > B.
> > > F. Skinner
> > > ******************************************************************
> > >
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