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Package: r-base-core
Version: 2.14.1-1
Severity: normal
This morning after an dist-upgrade on my wheezy/sid system(s) I noticed
I could no longer access help data in R
> ?array
/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so: undefined
symbol: _pcre_valid_utf8
This is related to the fact that libpcre3 got updated from 8.12-4 to
1:8.30-4 in wheezy, but R is still at 2.14 in wheezy. R 2.14 will not
compile against, or run with, the new libpcre3 (which has renamed
_pcre_valid_utf8).
This will all fix up when 2.15 migrates to wheezy since that version
supports pcre 8.30. So I guess this is really just for the record if
others come looking.
It might be worth updating the dependency to libpcre >= 8.30 on the
Debain packages (though I've not studied the R source to determine if
this is strictly required, the NEWS file merely mentions support for 8.30
being added).
Cheers!
Shyamal
PS: same problem on my amd64 box, had to go to 2.15
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
ii libatlas3gf-base [liblapack.so.3gf] 3.8.3-27
ii libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf] 1.2.20110419-2
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-1
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-7
ii libgfortran3 4.7.0-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6
ii libgomp1 4.7.0-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2
ii libjpeg8 8d-1
ii liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3gf] 3.3.1-1
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3
ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-3+b1
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu1
ii libpcre3 1:8.30-4
ii libpng12-0 1.2.47-2
ii libquadmath0 4.7.0-1
ii libreadline6 6.2-8
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2
ii libtiff4 3.9.6-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4
ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-3
ii libxss1 1:1.2.1-2
ii libxt6 1:1.1.1-2
ii tcl8.5 8.5.11-1
ii tk8.5 8.5.11-1
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu2
ii unzip 6.0-5
ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6
ii zip 3.0-4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.6.dfsg-2
Versions of packages r-base-core recommends:
ii r-base-dev <none>
ii r-doc-html 2.14.1-1
ii r-recommended 2.14.1-1
Versions of packages r-base-core suggests:
ii ess 5.14-1
ii r-base-html 2.14.1-1
ii r-doc-info 2.14.1-1
ii r-mathlib 2.14.1-1
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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
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