Please try R-patched, as this has already been reported for AIX and addressed in R-patched and R-devel.
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Gordon Lack > Version: 2.2.0 > OS: OSF1/Tur64 > Submission from: (NULL) (193.128.25.20) > > > R-2.2.0 fails to build on OSF1 systems. > > ..... > make[4]: Leaving directory `..../R-2.2.0/src/library/tools/src > Error in list.files(path, pattern, all.files, full.names, recursive) : > invalid 'pattern' regular expression > Execution halted > make[3]: *** [all] Error 1 > ..... > > > > I've tracked down the problem to change (somewhere) in 2.2.0 vs. 2.1.1 which > has > resulted in re_node_set_alloc() (in src/main/regex.c) being called with a size > of 0. Whereas some system (Solaris, Linux, ...) return a valid pointer to a > zero-size allocation, OSF1 returns a NULL pointer on a 0 allocation request > (documented as such, and the Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 documents > that either may happen). The calling code treats a NULL return as a ESPACE > error. > > In R-2.1.1 this code was not asked to allocate 0 sizes, so I suspect that it > shouldn't be happening here either. > > A workaround is to add: > > if (size==0) size=1; /* OSF1 (at least) returns NULL on 0 alloc */ > > before the re_malloc (int, size) line in re_node_set_alloc(), which just means > you allocate a small space (which shodul be free()d soon anyway). > > The actual regex whcih triggers this during the build is: > > ^tools($|_) > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
