Re: [Rd] zlib+shlib issue with the official EL4 R binary

2007-03-29 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> I presume you are talking about RPMs built with --with-system-zlib? That's not recommended in the R-admin manual, and perhaps you

Re: [Rd] zlib+shlib issue with the official EL4 R binary

2007-03-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >>> I presume you are talking about RPMs built with --with-system-zlib? >>> >>> That's not recommended in the R-admin manual, and perhaps you can persuade >>> Martyn Plummer n

Re: [Rd] zlib+shlib issue with the official EL4 R binary

2007-03-29 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> I presume you are talking about RPMs built with --with-system-zlib? >> >> That's not recommended in the R-admin manual, and perhaps you can >> persuade >> Martyn Plummer not to do it. > > I've checked, and he no longer

Re: [Rd] zlib+shlib issue with the official EL4 R binary

2007-03-29 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I presume you are talking about RPMs built with --with-system-zlib? > > That's not recommended in the R-admin manual, and perhaps you can > persuade Martyn Plummer not to do it. Not quite - the problematic option seems to be "--enable-R-shlib" which the official RPM w

Re: [Rd] zlib+shlib issue with the official EL4 R binary

2007-03-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I presume you are talking about RPMs built with --with-system-zlib? > > That's not recommended in the R-admin manual, and perhaps you can persuade > Martyn Plummer not to do it. I've checked, and he no longer does so, sorry. So there is a zlib insi

Re: [Rd] zlib+shlib issue with the official EL4 R binary

2007-03-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I presume you are talking about RPMs built with --with-system-zlib? That's not recommended in the R-admin manual, and perhaps you can persuade Martyn Plummer not to do it. On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Hi, > > I have got a curious issue with an R package which uses zlib, against >

[Rd] zlib+shlib issue with the official EL4 R binary

2007-03-29 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hi, I have got a curious issue with an R package which uses zlib, against the official binary here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/el4/i386/R-2.4.1-1.rh4AS.i386.rpm on a Redhat EL4 i686 system. The problem is that at the end of reading a gzip'ed file within my C code, gzgetc() returns