>>>>> Jack Howarth <howarth.mailing.li...@gmail.com> >>>>> on Mon, 15 Jun 2015 22:03:59 -0400 writes:
> Is there a reason why the fix for Bug 15899 - Omitted 'extern' on > 'R_running_as_main_program' after refactor can cause linker errors for > applications embedding R... > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15899 > was never back ported for R 3.3 for the R 3.2.1 release? Restoring > that omitted 'extern' to the declaration of 'int > R_running_as_main_program;' in src/Rinterface.h is essential for being > able to build Rstudio. from the sources ...(which is unusual, but I agree that that is an important exercise .. if only to implicitly "prove" that Rstudio is truly open source...) > Jack I had not ported that change to R-patched because I had not been 100% sure that there were no "bad" implications -- so wanted to wait a couple of days -- and then forgot... I am sorry. Still your "reminder" comes very very late in the release process for R 3.2.1. ... but as an exception, and because it *is* so minimal (and has not caused any negative effects) I have ported the change now to the 3.2.1 RC. Martin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel