[rkward-devel] R 2.8.0 breaks rkward

[Stefan Rödiger]

Am Wednesday 22 October 2008 20:17:13 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Michael Rutter wrote:
> > I maintain Ubuntu packages on CRAN for amd64.  Today, the new version of
> > R (2.8.0) came out, and I am unable to build an rkward package based
> > around 2.8.0.  Turns out the decision has been made to remove Rdevices.h
> > and Rgraphics.h from the installed portion of R.  They still exist in
> > the source code, however.  Since Rdevices.h is not available to ubuntu,
> > the build fails under hardy and intrepid.  Same problem with the package
> > rpy.
> >
> > Not sure what the fix is, but at this point I think we are going to
> > release R 2.8.0 builds for ubuntu without an update to rkward.  Would
> > have found this sooner, but testing packages is one of the last things
> > on the list.
>
> thanks for pointing this out!
>
> I'm still extremely short on time (and on a dialup connection). For all I
> can see, the fix is as easy as removing the line
> #include "Rdevices.h"
> from rbackend/rembedinternal.cpp (around line 90). It simply was not really
> needed, an now it breaks things. So, the fix is simple enough, however, I
> won't get around to roll fixed packages too soon. Still, if you are a
> package maintainer, you will know how to release a fixed package. I'd
> appreciate it a lot, if you could look into that!
>
> Note: I did not actually download and check R 2.8.0, so possibly other
> things are borken as well. As for the missing header, the solution is
> simply to remove the include line as detailed above.
>
> Regards
> Thomas

Should I apply this to SVN in order to avoid this problem for people who use code from there?