[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#506728: postgresql-8.3-plr: Does not run ldconfig and does not set R_HOME in postgresql environment

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Martin Pitt wrote:

>> Makefile:override CPPFLAGS += -DR_HOME_DEFAULT=\"$(rhomedef)\"
>
> That looks interesting! Maybe setting $rhomedef during build will
> already exactly do what we need?
>
>> pg_userfuncs.c: unsetenv("R_HOME");
>> plr.c:  r_home = getenv("R_HOME");
>> plr.c:          size_t          rh_len = strlen(R_HOME_DEFAULT);
>
> This seems to be the important code, indeed. If $R_HOME_DEFAULT isn't
> already a fallback, then having something like
>
>  r_home = getenv("R_HOME");
>  if (!r_home)
> 	  r_home = "/usr/lib/R";
>
> should do the trick?

I will give it a try, but it might last 2 weeks + x because I'm offline
for the next week and have to prepare something in advance.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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