[R] Output from make check

ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jun 26 08:50:13 CEST 2002


On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Patrick Connolly wrote:

> These are probably very basic questions, but I don't know how one
> reads output such as this:
>
> [hrapgc at biomat1 R-1.5.1]$ make check
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests'
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: `Makedeps' is up to date.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests/Examples'
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests/Examples'
> running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests/Examples'
> make[3]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests/Examples'
> make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests'
> make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hrapgc/local/R-1.5.1/tests'
> make: *** [check] Error 2
> [hrapgc at biomat1 R-1.5.1]$
>
> Just what do Error 1 and Error 2 refer to?

Return codes from programs called by your make.  In this case the first is
forced by the line

	@$(R) < $< > $@ || (mv $@ $@.fail && exit 1)

so the command has return code 1.

> And does it make sense that certain directories were "entered" twice
> in succession?

Yes.  Note that this reflects spawning new copies of make with different
targets.  I have only ever seen GNU make give this output, and it's rather
misleading.  It means `starting/ending a make run in directory foo'.


You need to look at the file base-Ex.Rout.fail to see the actual problem,

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