On 3 April 2012 at 23:08, Shyamal Prasad wrote: | | Package: r-base-core | Version: 2.14.1-1 | Severity: normal | | This morning after an dist-upgrade on my wheezy/sid system(s) I noticed | I could no longer access help data in R | | > ?array | /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so: undefined symbol: _pcre_valid_utf8 | | This is related to the fact that libpcre3 got updated from 8.12-4 to | 1:8.30-4 in wheezy, but R is still at 2.14 in wheezy. R 2.14 will not | compile against, or run with, the new libpcre3 (which has renamed | _pcre_valid_utf8).
How unpleasant. [ People sometimes make this argument that shared libraries open you up to these issues; normally API/ABI interfaces don't change though. ] | This will all fix up when 2.15 migrates to wheezy since that version | supports pcre 8.30. So I guess this is really just for the record if | others come looking. | | It might be worth updating the dependency to libpcre >= 8.30 on the | Debain packages (though I've not studied the R source to determine if | this is strictly required, the NEWS file merely mentions support for 8.30 | being added). That may in fact be thw minimum requirement now. | Cheers! | Shyamal | | PS: same problem on my amd64 box, had to go to 2.15 I guess putting libpcre3 'on hold' to keep the old version would work too. But hopefully by April 9 we should have R 2.15.0 in testing... Thanks for the detailed bug report! Dirk | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: wheezy/sid | APT prefers testing | APT policy: (500, 'testing') | Architecture: i386 (i686) | | Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash | | Versions of packages r-base-core depends on: | ii libatlas3gf-base [liblapack.so.3gf] 3.8.3-27 | ii libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf] 1.2.20110419-2 | ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-1 | ii libc6 2.13-27 | ii libcairo2 1.10.2-7 | ii libgfortran3 4.7.0-1 | ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6 | ii libgomp1 4.7.0-1 | ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2 | ii libjpeg8 8d-1 | ii liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3gf] 3.3.1-1 | ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 | ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-3+b1 | ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu1 | ii libpcre3 1:8.30-4 | ii libpng12-0 1.2.47-2 | ii libquadmath0 4.7.0-1 | ii libreadline6 6.2-8 | ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2 | ii libtiff4 3.9.6-1 | ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4 | ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-3 | ii libxss1 1:1.2.1-2 | ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2 | ii tcl8.5 8.5.11-1 | ii tk8.5 8.5.11-1 | ii ucf 3.0025+nmu2 | ii unzip 6.0-5 | ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6 | ii zip 3.0-4 | ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2 | | Versions of packages r-base-core recommends: | ii r-base-dev <none> | ii r-doc-html 2.14.1-1 | ii r-recommended 2.14.1-1 | | Versions of packages r-base-core suggests: | ii ess 5.14-1 | ii r-base-html 2.14.1-1 | ii r-doc-info 2.14.1-1 | ii r-mathlib 2.14.1-1 | | -- no debconf information | | -- R/Finance 2012 Conference on May 11 and 12, 2012 at UIC in Chicago, IL See agenda, registration details and more at http://www.RinFinance.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
