[R] build fails to build help for nlme

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> I have once seen this when a disc became full.

Flaky RAM chips and overheating might do it too. Also, running the
system near memory full condition (a runaway Mozilla or Java process
perchance?). Is the crash point reproducible?

> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Seth Falcon wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to build R-1.8.1 from source on Linux and getting the
> > following error when the makefile gets to the step of building the help
> > for 'nlme':
> > 
> > <snip>
> > ranef.lme                         text    html    latex   example
> > reStruct                          text    html    latex   example
> > /home/sfalcon/sw/R-related/R-1.8.1/bin/INSTALL: line 1:  8133 Segmentation fault      ${R_CMD} perl "${R_HOME}/share/perl/build-help.pl" ${build_help_opts} "${pkg_dir}" "${lib}" "${R_PACKAGE_DIR}" "${pkg_name}"
> > ERROR: building help failed for package 'nlme'
> > ** Removing '/home/sfalcon/sw/R-related/R-1.8.1/library/nlme'
> > make[2]: *** [nlme.ts] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/sfalcon/sw/R-related/R-1.8.1/src/library/Recommended'
> > make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/home/sfalcon/sw/R-related/R-1.8.1/src/library/Recommended'
> > make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
> > </snip>
> > 
> > Has anyone else encountered this?
> > 
> > I've had no difficulties compiling previous versions of R on this
> > machine.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > + seth
> > 
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