# emerge --ask --verbose rpy [...] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking rpy-0.4.6.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/rpy-0.4.6/work >>> Source unpacked. RHOMES= [] Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 67, in ? RVERSION = rpy_tools.get_R_VERSION(RHOME, force_exec=True) File "/var/tmp/portage/rpy-0.4.6/work/rpy-0.4.6/rpy_tools.py", line 98, in get_R_VERSIO N raise RuntimeError("Couldn't obtain version number from output\n" RuntimeError: Couldn't obtain version number from output of `R --version'. ----------- $ R --version R version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) Copyright (C) 2006 R Development Core Team
Created attachment 92033 [details] emerge --info output
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap2 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91704 ***
not a dupe, this is because rpy-0.4.6 is only compatible with R-2.2.x.
Yes, I can confirm: rpy-0.4.6 did compile with R-2.2.1, but not with R-2.3.
Added rpy-0.99.2 and added a patch to fix their version check (#140842)