[Rd] problem building R from svn repo

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

see below.

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
<kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Before make'ing you need to get the recommended packages.  I do (with
> your paths)
> ../svn/tools/sync-recommended
> ../svn/tools/sync-recommended
>

I did install the recommended packages.

> You should not run configure or make with sudo.  If you need to
> install system-wide, you only need to run make install under sudo,
> like
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install

I thougt so, and did so first. But that generated other errors!,
which was killed by using sudo.

kjetil

>
> Kasper
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Kjetil Halvorsen
> <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hola!
>>
>> I just changed my laptop to debian squeeze,
>> downloaded R devel from svn repo, as described in the manual.
>>
>> Then I configured for building in a separate build dir with:
>>
>> kjetil at kjetil:~/R/Rbuilddir$ sudo  ../svn/configure
>>
>> --- which succeeded,  with:
>>
>> R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>>
>>  Source directory:          ../svn
>>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>>
>>  C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
>>  Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran  -g -O
>>
>>  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>>  Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O
>>  Obj-C compiler:
>>
>>  Interfaces supported:      X11
>>  External libraries:        readline, ICU
>>  Additional capabilities:   NLS
>>  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
>>
>>  Recommended packages:      yes
>>
>> Then
>> sudo make
>>
>> stops near the end with:
>>
>> writing package indices
>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library'
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library'
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library'
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library'
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library/Recommended'
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library/Recommended'
>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `MASS.ts', needed by
>> `stamp-recommended'.  Stop.
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library/Recommended'
>> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library/Recommended'
>> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
>>
>> --- not able to make the time-stamps!
>>
>> Kjetil
>>
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