[Rd] make: Target `all' not remade because of errors. (PR#8585)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Why did you think this was an error in R?  This is an error from a 
*system* header file about a missing *system* header file.

It look like on your system libpng-devel has been installed without its 
dependency zlib-devel. In all the years this has been in R we have never 
encountered such a system, and RPM management is supposed to prevent it 
happening (see below).

You can work around this by altering src/include/config.h to not define 
HAVE_PNG.

Please seek help elsewhere about fixing your OS (which is no longer 
supported by RedHat, of course).

On an FC3 box

gannet% rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/include/png.h
libpng-devel-1.2.8-1.fc3
gannet% rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/include/zlib.h
zlib-devel-1.2.1.2-3.fc3
gannet% rpm -q -R libpng-devel-1.2.8-1.fc3
/bin/sh
libpng = 2:1.2.8
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
zlib-devel
^^^^^^^^^^

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, cadet at odd.bio.sunysb.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Je Cade
> Version: R-2.2.1
> OS: RedHat 9
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.49.108.173)
>
>
>
> I followed the instructions. tar -xvf, configure, then make.
> I get these error messages at the end of make and with make check.
> ==================================================================
> ==================================================================
> In file included from rbitmap.c:45:
> /usr/include/png.h:318:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory

This is the problem.

> In file included from /usr/include/png.h:321,
>                 from rbitmap.c:45:
> /usr/include/pngconf.h:1091: error: parse error before '*' token
> /usr/include/pngconf.h:1092: error: parse error before '*' token
> /usr/include/pngconf.h:1093: error: parse error before '*' token
> In file included from rbitmap.c:45:
> /usr/include/png.h:1034: error: parse error before "z_stream"
> /usr/include/png.h:1262: error: parse error before '}' token
> /usr/include/png.h:1821: error: parse error before "png_zalloc"
> /usr/include/png.h:1821: error: parse error before "png_ptr"
> /usr/include/png.h:1825: error: parse error before "png_ptr"
> rbitmap.c: In function `my_png_error':
> rbitmap.c:72: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> rbitmap.c: In function `R_SaveAsPng':
> rbitmap.c:121: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> make[4]: *** [rbitmap.lo] Error 1
> make[4]: Target `R_X11.so' not remade because of errors.

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