On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Roger D. Peng wrote: > > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >>> On 6/12/2006 4:53 PM, Roger D. Peng wrote: >>>> I've been getting the following warning after running >>>> 'install.packages()' recently: >>>> >>>> Warning message: >>>> insufficient OS support on this platform in: normalizePath(path) >>>> >>>> Does anyone know what this means? And does anyone know how I can get rid >>>> of the >>>> warning? I've just installed R on a fresh FC5 system so I feel I might >>>> have >>>> forgotten to install a package/library or something. >>> >>> This is printed when your R source was compiled without these defines: >>> >>> #if defined(HAVE_GETCWD) && defined(HAVE_REALPATH) >>> >>> I guess you can look in your config log to see why you don't have those. >> >> This worked for me on a vanilla FC5 system. I guess the issue is likely to >> be realpath, whose definition is enclosed by >> >> #if defined __USE_BSD || defined __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED >> #endif >> >> so I would review the compiler options used: -std=gnu99 is recommended >> (and selected by default). I do get the warning with -std=c89 and >> -std=c99. > > Indeed, my modification of CFLAGS was the problem. However, if I may offer a > meager defense, the comments for CFLAGS in 'config.site' say: > > If unspecified, defaults to '-g -O2 -std=c99' for gcc
Thanks, will update that. I've also made the code try harder to find realpath even if the header has hidden it. -- 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
