Martin Maechler
1998-Oct-30 08:44 UTC
R 0.63 testers help: Please "(cd tests; make print-tests.Rout)"
R 0.63 only ------------ (0.62 does not have the print-tests.Rout.save against which to diff!) I'd be glad if some of you could help us find out some printing/formatting differences of the same R version on different architectures. I have the suspiscion that the new glibc aka libc-6 (Linux), has changed some of the internal printing/formatting code [fprintf ..]. One consequence is that on Debian 2.0 systems, (cd tests; make print-tests.Rout) gives lots of diff output, when it works okay, on Solaris 2.5.x. If you want help us (R core developers), 1) have a fairly recent version of R-0.63 ["unstable"], or get it from CRAN : src/devel/R-devel.tar.gz 2) After "./configure; make" (need now both again), type (cd tests; make print-tests.Rout) i) If you get no output after the line ./Rdiff print-tests.Rout ./print-tests.Rout.save please report something like uname -a (and or tell me how your Linux distribution is called) gcc -v (or the version of your C compiler, if not gcc) ii) If you *DO* get diff output after the line ./Rdiff print-tests.Rout ./print-tests.Rout.save send this output -- in addition to the OS / C version (as above) ------> Reply to me with these outputs, I'll summarize to R-devel! {{ 3) You may also try make check which runs much more "tests", and report to R-core@stat.math.ethz.ch if you have problems }} Thank you for your support of R development! Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum SOL G1; Sonneggstr.33 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1086 <>< -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._