Re: [Rd] properly reporting compile bugs

2008-08-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
You should report package problems to the package maintainer (see the R posting guide and FAQ). *But* it seems you are just replicating what the CRAN daily checks on x86_64 Debian Linux do, and I repeat those checks most weeks on Fedora 8 (including twice already this week as we test the near-

[Rd] properly reporting compile bugs

2008-08-13 Thread egc
A while ago I decided to simply download and install every package on CRAN (disk space is cheap these days...). In the process, I kept loose track of which packages generated one or more 'compilation errors' during the install process (machine runs 64-bit Fedora 8, gcc 4.1 etc. etc). Most of the er