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
>
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