R devel - Dec 2002 - Perl library problem in docs install (PR#2383)

Full_Name: William Annis
Version: 1.6.1
OS: Solaris
Submission from: (NULL) (144.92.164.199)


In order to get the documentation to build correctly I had to make a
change to the library $INST/share/perl/R/Utils.pm to path out fill
to Text::Wrap::fill.  This is for perl5.005 on solaris.

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wm

That's an ancient version of perl, of which there are several variants,
and the one I had worked on Solaris 2.7.  My memory is that 5.00503 works,
and earlier versions of 5.005 are betas.  So which version precisely do
you have?

I believe this is a bug in your perl install, not in R.  Why don't you try
the current perl 5.8.0?  That does work on reasonably recent Solaris.

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 annis@biostat.wisc.edu wrote:
> Full_Name: William Annis
> Version: 1.6.1
> OS: Solaris
> Submission from: (NULL) (144.92.164.199)
>
>
> In order to get the documentation to build correctly I had to make a
> change to the library $INST/share/perl/R/Utils.pm to path out fill
> to Text::Wrap::fill.  This is for perl5.005 on solaris.
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