>>>>> Joseph Mingrone <j...@ftfl.ca> >>>>> on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:21:49 -0400 writes:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> writes: >> On 22 November 2016 at 00:02, Joseph Mingrone wrote: >> | These are also not fatal errors on FreeBSD, where everything, for now, also just >> | works. ...until a library's interface changes. You seem to be arguing that >> | sonmaes are pointless. We disagree. >> You are putting words in my mouth. In my very first reply to you, I pointed >> out that (for non-BSD systems at least) the sonames do not matter as R loads >> the libraries itself, rather than via ldd. No more, no less. > Let me restate. You seem to be arguing that, because R itself doesn't consume > it's shared libraries via ldd(), sonames serve no purpose, in this case. Please > correct me if I'm putting words in your mouth. >> | I can't say for certain (I'm not an rkward user), but looking at the build >> Why did _you_ then bring up rkward as an example? That was your suggestion. > Because you asked, "Yes, well, but are there other customers?" Also, I'm trying > to put myself in the perspective of package users. > Is this a more appropriate example? > # ldd /usr/local/lib/R/library/tseries/libs/tseries.so | grep libR > libRblas.so => /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so (0x80120c000) > libR.so => /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libR.so (0x801c00000) Well, Dirk has said to have given his last reply on this thread. I (as a member of R-core) am glad about people like Dirk who take some of our load and helpfully answer such questions/reports on R-devel. To the issue: I also don't see what your point is. R works with these so libraries as intended in all cases as far as we know, and so I don't understand why anything needs to be changed. All these libraries "belong to R" and are tied to a specific version of R and are not be used outside of R, so I also don't see your point. Best regards, Martin Maechler ETH Zurich ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel