On 4 April 2012 at 20:08, Shyamal Prasad wrote: | | >>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> writes: | | Dirk> | It might be worth updating the dependency to libpcre >= 8.30 | | Dirk> That may in fact be thw minimum requirement now. | | I tried building R 2.15 against PCRE 8.12 since I my curiosity got the | better of me (and I'm using R more than usual this month). It works | fine, even when dynamically linked against libpcre3 8.30. | | In fact, I found that src/main/util.c has been cleaned up to not include | pcre.h and access the previously private _pcre_valid_utf8 function. So I | can confirm 8.30 is *not* the new minimum (in fact, I suspect the R source | is now more portable for PCRE versions than before). | | Dirk> I guess putting libpcre3 'on hold' to keep the old version | Dirk> would work too. | | It sure does! | | Dirk> But hopefully by April 9 we should have R 2.15.0 in testing... | | Yep, please go ahead and close this when you want to. It might be worth | leaving it open until April 9 on the off chance that this report helps | some one else who runs into the same issue (who will probably need to | browse http://snapshot.debian.org/package/pcre3/8.12-3/#libpcre3_8.12-3 | and install that version :-)
Closing this now as R 2.15.0 did in fact make it to testing. Thanks again for eagle-eyed work on this. Dirk | | Cheers! | Shyamal -- R/Finance 2012 Conference on May 11 and 12, 2012 at UIC in Chicago, IL See agenda, registration details and more at http://www.RinFinance.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
