I ran into similar issues while trying to build rpy2 on windows, and i ended up having to steal header files from the source distribution of R. How much work would it be to do this?
Laurent Oget 2008/10/20 Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 20 October 2008 at 11:42, laurent oget wrote: > | I have built and used Rpy2 on ubuntu so it can be done, however the > | API are different and replacing rpy with rpy2 in ubuntu packages will > | break a lot of code using rpy. > > Sure, but that wasn't the question. > > The question was about rpy (v1) now becoming 'unbuildable' as R 2.8.0, out as > of this morning, dramatically reduced the number of exported header files. > > We may have to modify the rpy (v1) source distribution to bring whatever is > needed in from the R headers --- and carefully test that it still works. If > we don't do that, rpy in Debian turns into 'fails to build from source' and > disappears from Debian and then Ubuntu. That is likely to break some code > too. > > Dirk > > -- > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > rpy-list mailing list > rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
