[Rd] Recent snapshot tarballs of R-devel don't compile

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, hpages at fhcrc.org wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Trying to compile one of the latest snapshot tarballs of R-devel gives
> me the following error (64-bit openSUSE 10.3):

We don't know what file that is, though.  Problems with snapshots need to 
be reported to the site which makes them.

Perhaps you mean 
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-devel_2008-12-03.tar.bz2
?  In which case see the README in that directory for how to report a 
problem.

> ...
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/loc/home/biocbuild/bbs-2.4-bioc/R/src/library/Recommended'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `VR.ts', needed by `stamp-recommended'. 
> Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/loc/home/biocbuild/bbs-2.4-bioc/R/src/library/Recommended'
> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/loc/home/biocbuild/bbs-2.4-bioc/R/src/library/Recommended'
> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
>
> Maybe because these tarballs don't contain the symlinks that are
> normally defined in the src/library/Recommended/ folder?

Maybe, in which case running tools/link-recommended will fix it.  Works 
for me with the snapshot mentioned above.

>
> Cheers,
> H.
>
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