kkuroda@crl.ucsd.edu
2002-Jul-22 23:41 UTC
bug in R-1.5.1 for Mac OS X installer (PR#1825)
Hi, Thanks for developing an outstanding software for free. I admire all your effort greatly. I would like to submit a bug report on the R-1.5.1 installer (in .mpkg, .pkg format) for Mac OS X. I'm using fink in conjunction with Darwin. In my environment, /usr/local is symbolically linked to /sw which is fink's main directory. This is to conform the directory structure on my machine to the standard UNIX/Linux one. It turned out that R-1.5.1 installer ignores the symbolic link and creates new /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib directories on their own, thereby installing all its stuff into them. This is really annoying. (Actually, after installing R, bash stopped running. At first, I couldn't figure out at all what happened. It turned out that bash failed to runs because it lost access dynamic libraries in /usr/local/lib directory.) I hope the installer properly follows symbolic links during installation. Cheers, Kow -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hello Thanks for the report. Do you have /usr/local->/sw or /sw->/usr/local i.e. which one of the two only exists as a soft link ? Probably /sw, i.e. fink really installs in /usr/local. It is generally bad to confound /sw and /usr/local, see http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/general.php#usr-local The R installer tries to install in /sw (fink stuff) and in /usr/local (R stuff). It must get confused when it is trying to locate /sw/lib, deciding this does not exist, then creating it as /usr/local/lib. Same for /sw/bin. I don't think there is much I can do about it, it's what the Installer does. I can warn people. By the way, where was your bash executable ? This was not overwritten ? --- Jan On Monday, Jul 22, 2002, at 16:41 US/Pacific, kkuroda@crl.ucsd.edu wrote:> Hi, > > Thanks for developing an outstanding software for free. I admire all > your > effort greatly. I would like to submit a bug report on the R-1.5.1 > installer (in .mpkg, .pkg format) for Mac OS X. > > I'm using fink in conjunction with Darwin. In my environment, > /usr/local is > symbolically linked to /sw which is fink's main directory. This is to > conform the directory structure on my machine to the standard > UNIX/Linux > one. > > It turned out that R-1.5.1 installer ignores the symbolic link and > creates > new /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib directories on their own, thereby > installing all its stuff into them. This is really annoying. (Actually, > after installing R, bash stopped running. At first, I couldn't figure > out > at all what happened. It turned out that bash failed to runs because it > lost access dynamic libraries in /usr/local/lib directory.) > > I hope the installer properly follows symbolic links during > installation. > > Cheers, > Kow > > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > .-.-.-.-.- > 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 > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ > ._._._._ > >==Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw ======================================================= No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~deleeuw/sounds/nomatter.au ======================================================= -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._