R help - Sep 2003 - No joy installing R with shared libs.

Hello,

My platform is SuSE 8.1.  After downloading and unpacking R version 1.7 I 
tried building with shared libs enabled. (./configure --enabl-R-shlib). My 
goal is to use RSPython but I am now in my own private segmentation fault 
hell.

The R build worked fine: make, make check, make install cool.
The RSPython build worked fine.

Thinking I'm good to go, I run python. But when I import RS python rolls 
over and dies with a segmentation fault. 
It has been two days of futzing with recompiles, environment variable 
diddling and whatnot. 

Can some kind soul please give me a fool proof recipe for building R and 
RSPython so that it actually works?

Thanks,
Douglass Turner

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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:24:59AM +0000, turner at uvs.is
wrote:
> Can some kind soul please give me a fool proof recipe for building R and 
> RSPython so that it actually works?
I don't have a recipe, but one thought to help debug the process:  Try
installing RPy [1].  RPy also provides access to R via Python and uses
the libR.so library.  If you can install and "import rpy" without
problem then it must be an issue with RSPython.  


[1] http://rpy.sourceforge.net/


+ seth

Douglas,

I don't use RSPython, but I had the same problem with RPy: segfault in
python the moment I try to load RPy: 'import rpy'.
The problem happened in R 1.7.0 and was fixed by upgrading to R 1.7.1, I
think it was traced to conflicting regex functions in libc and R (see
http://rpy.sourceforge.net). So I'd try to install R 1.7.1 if you don't
have it...

Best,
Aleksey

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 turner at uvs.is wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My platform is SuSE 8.1.  After downloading and unpacking R version 1.7 I 
> tried building with shared libs enabled. (./configure --enabl-R-shlib). My 
> goal is to use RSPython but I am now in my own private segmentation fault 
> hell.
> 
> The R build worked fine: make, make check, make install cool.
> The RSPython build worked fine.
> 
> Thinking I'm good to go, I run python. But when I import RS python
rolls
> over and dies with a segmentation fault. 
> It has been two days of futzing with recompiles, environment variable 
> diddling and whatnot. 
> 
> Can some kind soul please give me a fool proof recipe for building R and 
> RSPython so that it actually works?
> 
> Thanks,
> Douglass Turner
> 
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