On 02/01/2014 07:13 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> Orion,
> 
> On 31 January 2014 at 13:42, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> | FYI https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15087#c12 -
> | 
> | I've been trying to get this fixed in Fedora.  My preferred solution would 
> be
> | for the tre library to accept the R modifications so that R could be built
> | against a system tre library (which is a core goal of the Fedora project).
> | I've made this request here:
> | 
> | https://github.com/laurikari/tre/pull/14
> | 
> | This does not encompass all of the R changes to tre, but it does add the
> | missing routines so that R can be compiled against it.
> | 
> | I built this version of the tre library on arm, built R against it, and
> | confirmed that the problem is then fixed.
> | 
> | Another solution might be to merge in the current tre library into the R
> | version as the upstream tre library does not appear to suffer from this
> | problem.  It is also possible that some other R modification to tre causes
> | this issue as well.
> 
> Thanks for that follow-up. I was unaware of this bug report over there.
> 
> I thought I did file the patch we have been applying (and which I got from
> Johannes, who participated in the bugzilla discussion you point to, and whom
> I CC'ed here) as a bugzilla bug report. But I don't find it now :-/
> 
> In any event -- I can't help much beyond patchin the Debian package, and we
> can only hope R Core eventually acts. So we need to keep some pressure on
> them.
> 
> Dirk

Just to be painfully explicit - the Fedora R package already carries
your patch to allow R itself to compile on arm.  But we still need to
fix the tre library in R to allow it to work on arm.


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