Thank you, Martin. I linked to your message in a comment here so maybe other people will know about that useful technique:
http://singmann.org/installing-r-devel-on-linux/#comment-161 However, when I try it, I get an error: $ make make[1]: Entering directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/m4' make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'R'. make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/m4' make[1]: Entering directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/tools' make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'R'. make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/tools' make[1]: Entering directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/doc' /usr/bin/install: cannot stat '../../R-svn/doc/NEWS': No such file or directory /usr/bin/install: cannot stat '../../R-svn/doc/NEWS.pdf': No such file or directory Makefile:164: recipe for target 'svnonly' failed make[1]: *** [svnonly] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/frederik/pkg-tmp/R-svn-build/doc' Makefile:60: recipe for target 'R' failed make: *** [R] Error 1 I configured like this: $ cd ../R-svn-build/ $ ../R-svn/configure --without-recommended-packages --prefix=$HOME/r-svn-test STRIP=true I guess I can try to debug it myself but thought I should report back to you. It works when I 'configure' and 'make' in the source directory. Cheers, Frederick On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 07:20:18PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>> Keith O'Hara <keith.oh...@nyu.edu> > >>>>> on Tue, 24 May 2016 12:47:43 -0400 writes: > > > svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ <target-directory> > > yes, indeed. thank you, Keith. > > and from then on only > > cd <target-directory> > svn up > > (which is short for 'svn update'). > > Another hint: Then do *not* build in the source directory but in > what we called a "build directory"; i.e., something like > (from scratch; including the only-once needed "checkout") : > > svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ R > cd R > tools/rsync-recommended > mkdir ../build-R > cd ../build-R > ../R/configure > make > make check > > and I then never run 'make install', but rather use symbolic > link from > ..../build-R/bin/R to something like ~/bin/R-devel > i.e., > cd ~/bin > ln -s ..../build-R/bin/R R-devel > > Martin > > >> On May 24, 2016, at 12:45 PM, frede...@ofb.net wrote: > >> > >> I agree with Martin's summary of the situation, and with the updated > >> NEWS entry. > >> > >> I'm not familiar with Subversion, can you tell me the command to use? > >> > >> (I tried "svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R/"; but it seems to be > >> downloading all branches) > >> > >> Frederick > >> > >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:30:11PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>>>>> peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> > >>>>>>>> on Tue, 24 May 2016 13:47:27 +0200 writes: > >>> > >>>> I had a regression in config.site so the nightly build didn't. > Retrying.... > >>>> Looks like it will build, but the ctl-R, ctl-C bug is still present > on OSX (w/Simon's libs). This _was_ fixed for a while, was it not? > >>> > >>> I thought it was never fixed, for readline versions 5.x (or all > >>> of readline_version < 6.3 ?) because the patch assumed features > >>> not available, e.g., for Frederik (who got compilation errors > >>> which I think you confirmed on pre-6 readline). > >>> > >>> I remember you having two different readlines installed on OSX > >>> but the standard Mac binary (from CRAN, i.e. Simon) would use > >>> the old readline version ? > >>> > >>> so that whole resetReadline() solution is now conditionalized inside > >>> > >>> #if defined(RL_READLINE_VERSION) && RL_READLINE_VERSION >= 0x0603 > >>> ... > >>> ... > >>> #endif > >>> > >>> and hence the previous code (which is buggy) is used for > >>> readline versions < 6.3. > >>> As a consequence the bug is only fixed for readline >= 6.3, > >>> because the current patch did not compile and hence seemed not > >>> appropriate for readline < 6.3 (and hence the above > conditionalization). > >>> > >>> > >>>> (The NEWS entry is also wrong: The issue existed before readline 6.3) > >>> > >>> Aah.. you are right. The API change with 6.3 was for the other, the > >>> "SIGWINCH" bug. > >>> > >>> Here's a an update proposal for that NEWS entry : > >>> > >>> • The API for readline libraries >= 6.3 had changed such > >>> terminal window resizes where no longer properly signalled > >>> (PR#16604). Also, ‘Ctrl C’ in incremental search behaved > >>> confusingly in R (unix) consoles (PR#16603) also for older > >>> readline versions. These have been fixed (for readline >= > >>> 6.3 only), thanks to patches by Frederick Eaton. > >>> > >>> > >>> Martin > >>> > >>>> -pd > >>> > >>>> On 24 May 2016, at 12:55 , Martin Maechler > <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > >>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Can you (Frederick, Peter, Keith, but ideally others, too) > >>>>> confirm that you don't see any problems anymore, when building a > >>>>> version of R-devel from sources that are newer > >>>>> than (or equal to) svn revision 70632 (2016-05-19 10:59:51, see > below)? > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm asking because the question is open if these should be > >>>>> "back ported" to R 3.3.0 patched or not. > >>>>> > >>>>> Best regards, > >>>>> Martin > >>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> > >>>>>>>>>> on Thu, 19 May 2016 11:02:48 +0200 writes: > >>>>> > >>>>>>>>>> <frede...@ofb.net> > >>>>>>>>>> on Wed, 18 May 2016 15:03:31 -0700 writes: > >>>>> > >>>>>>>> Readline <= 6.2 shouldn't require the SIGWINCH patch, so > >>>>>>>> if older versions have trouble finding rl_resize_terminal > >>>>>>>> then you could wrap a macro around that part. > >>>>> > >>>>>>> I find python related patches that use > >>>>> > >>>>>>> #ifdef HAVE_RL_RESIZE_TERMINAL > >>>>> > >>>>>>> so they must have configured for that. We could and > >>>>>>> probably should do the same, but as a Linux_only guy > >>>>>>> currently (even basically only one flavor of Linux), I'd > >>>>>>> appreciate others to produce code for that. > >>>>> > >>>>> Actually that was easy (in hindsight.. I took too long!) > >>>>> enough, so I've now committed > >>>>> > >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>>> r70632 | maechler | 2016-05-19 10:59:51 +0200 (Thu, 19 May 2016) | 1 > >>>>> line > >>>>> Changed paths: > >>>>> M configure > >>>>> M configure.ac > >>>>> M src/include/config.h.in > >>>>> M src/unix/sys-std.c > >>>>> > >>>>> check for rl_resize_terminal() now > >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>>> > >>>>> ... and Keith should even not see the warning anymore > >>>>> (nor Peter the error, when compiling using readline 5.x instead of > >>>>> 6.[23]). > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> [...........] > >>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > >>>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > >>>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > >>>> Phone: (+45)38153501 > >>>> Office: A 4.23 > >>>> Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > >>> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
