[R] RGtk2 compilation problem

[Shige Song]

Yes, the new version works fine. Many thanks.

Best,
Shige

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
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>> You need RGtk2 2.20.7 which is now on CRAN.  Others have seen this, but it
>> has taken a while to track down the exact cause.
>>
>> The diagnosis was that ML used a recent GNU tar which created a tarball
>> with hard links that R's untar was not prepared to deal with. We consider
>> that is a bug in GNU tar, but untar() has been updated in R-patched to cope.
>>
>
> After a lot of back and forth with the GNU tar guys, it turns out they do
> not consider this to be a bug. I had to refresh my knowledge of hard linking
> to understand. A hard link is from a file name to the actual inode in the
> file system. Typically every file has a single hard link (the name of the
> file). The -h option used to resolve a symbolic link differently, based on
> whether the hard link count of the target was 1 or >=2. This was practically
> useful in my mind, because symlinks to any files without any explicitly
> added hard links would become a regular file in the archive. They have now
> dropped this distinction, calling it an inconsistency (apparently other
> implementations of tar have never made such a distinction). So symlinks now
> become hard links in the archive (as long as the target is in the archive).
> We may need to keep the fix in untar() to handle this. Either way, RGtk2
> 2.20.7 should work now.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>>
>> If you have such a tarball, try setting the environment variable
>> R_INSTALL_TAR to 'tar' (or whatever GNU tar is called on your system) when
>> installing the tarball.
>>
>> For those packaging source packages: in the unusual event that your
>> package sources contains symbolic (or even hard) links, don't use GNU tar
>> 1.24 or 1.25.
>>
>> On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Shige Song wrote:
>>
>>> Look forward to it.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Shige
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Michael Lawrence
>>> <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Please watch for 2.20.5 and let me know if it helps. Not really sure
>>>> what is
>>>> going on here, but someone else has reported the same issue.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Shige Song <shigesong at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to compile&install the package "RGtk2" on my Ubuntu 10.04
>>>>> box. I did not have problem with earlier versions, but with the new
>>>>> version, I got the following error message :
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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