[R-SIG-Mac] Compiling R.app with 2.12 on Intel Mac 10.4

[Nick Matzke]

Hi all,

Slightly weird question, I'm mostly hoping there is some 
obvious thing that I am missing.

At the moment, I am stuck on a 10.4 machine (32-bit Intel 
mac).  However, there is an R package I need to use, that 
requires R 2.12.  So, being brave, I downloaded the R 2.12.2 
source and compiled that.  That part worked fine.

Then, since I like R.app, I downloaded the source for the 
most recent version of that ( Mac-GUI-1.35 ) and compiled it 
using Xcode 2.5.

It actually seems to work, installs packages, etc.  However 
the one weird thing I am noticing is that when I type a 
variable name that does not exist yet, R.app crashes as follows:

=============
 > undefined_variable
Error: object 'undefined_variable' not found

  *** caught bus error ***
address 0x0, cause 'non-existent physical address'

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Selection:
=============

Similar errors do not occur in the command line R 2.12.2, 
nor in previous versions of R.app on my computer.

One possibility is that in my xcode compilation my Active 
Build Configuration was "Development", not "Deployment" -- 
however, the compilation threw an error when I switched it 
to "Deployment".

Any thoughts/help appreciated. Cheers!
Nick




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