[R-sig-Fedora] Fedora 11: Package RBGL won't install

[Peter Baker]

Dear Tom and Matthias

Thanks very much for your prompt replies!!

I have upgraded boost to testing on 64 bit box but not on netbook
(586) so I'll let you know how it goes. Like Tom I feel a bit short of
time at present but I'm hoping to get to it in next few days

Cheers
Peter

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway
<tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/21/2009 03:25 AM, Matthias Buehlmaier wrote:
>> Peter,
>>
>> I just installed RBGL on Fedora 10 (64 bit) without any problem. Below
>> is my system information. Maybe the problem is related to the gcc
>> version, as you have suspected:
>
> So, the answer here is complicated:
>
> * The reason RBGL won't build on Fedora 11 or newer is due to a
> combination of:
>  - gcc optimization tightening
>  - RBGL bundling and using old boost headers
>
> The boost headers in Fedora's boost-devel package have been fixed up,
> and should not suffer from these issues. So, I sat down this morning and
> whipped up SRPMS for RBGL (and missing deps) which should get you over
> this particular hump (they compile against the system boost headers).
> Caveat: I only tested them on Rawhide, but they should work on all
> versions of Fedora.
>
> I also fixed a bug in RBGL where it was trying to call
> "edmunds.karp.max.flow", where that is actually a typo in boost (fixed
> in Fedora). You might need to back this patch out to build the R-RBGL
> src.rpm on older Fedora releases, I'm not sure when that fix was
> committed into boost.
>
> The SPEC files and SRPMs are here:
>
> http://www.auroralinux.org/people/spot/review/RBGL/
>
> If anyone feels inspired to pick them up and put them up for review,
> feel free to do so, otherwise, I'll get to them when I have a bit more
> time (which will be... sometime in 2049).
>
> ~spot
>



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