[R-pkg-devel] Problem compiling openssl package (FreeBSD stable/11)

[David Wolfskill]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 01:27:24PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>  ...
> | It turns out that in FreeBSD (possibly also in other BSD-derived
> | environments), PF_UNSPEC is defined (in /usr/include/sys/socket.h), but
> | only if "__BSD_VISIBLE" is true:
> 
> [good detective work omitted]

:-)

> | And it appears that the local sources are ephemeral, so I can't
> | readily patch those sources to see if I can get it to work (as the
> | patched sources wouldn't be used) -- unless I miss the mark....
> | 
> | Any suggestions for how I might proceed?
> 
> I don't follow. Can you not use 'diff' and 'patch'?  I am so old that I have
> 
>    tar xvzf foo_1.2.3.tar.gz
>    mv foo foo.orig
>    tar xvzf foo_1.2.3.tar.gz
>    cd foo
>    /* now do your work */
>    cd .. && diff -ru foo.orig foo > foo.patch
> 
> fairly deeply engrained in muscle memory.  And R itself is in pretty tip-top
> shape and will listen to 'configure; make; make install'.  You probably can
> even skip make install as you are "just" fighting a failure to build.
> ....

Oh, I can use the commands; I had been treating install.packages() as
rather more of a "black box" -- once I discovered that on exiting R, the
claimed location for the downloaded packages had vanished, I got a bit
"gun-shy." :-}

(I haven't actually created any packages in R....)

Thanks!

Peace,
david
-- 
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