On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jon Peatfield wrote: <snip> > I'm running rpmbuild right now (for i386) so I'll hopefully know if it at > least builds in the next few minutes. > > If it does build and will install/run on at least one test box I'll upload > the srpm into http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/linux/sl/damtp/5x/ and send another > message. Well the build eventually worked once I stopped being stupid about the build environment. However it needs doing again 'cos I forgot to bump the epoch (r-project's R.spec set it to 1 which SL's set it to 2). Currently rebuilding so the srpm will probably be another 30 mins or so. The version with the wrong epoch seems to run ok. $ R R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > version _ platform i686-redhat-linux-gnu arch i686 os linux-gnu system i686, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 6.2 year 2008 month 02 day 08 svn rev 44383 language R version.string R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) (well I only ran some simple demos but apparently the 'make check-all' in the %build tests huge amounts of stuff. -- Jon