[R] make install on solaris 10

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, roger koenker wrote:

> We have recently upgraded to Solaris 10 on a couple of sparc machines with 
> the usual
> mildly mysterious consequences for library locations, etc, etc.  I've managed 
> to configure
> R 2.1.0 for a 64 bit version with:
>
> R is now configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.10
>
>  Source directory:          .
>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>  C compiler:                gcc -m64 -g -O2
>  C++ compiler:              g++  -m64 -fPIC
>  Fortran compiler:          g77  -m64 -g -O2
>
>  Interfaces supported:      X11
>  External libraries:        readline
>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, MBCS, NLS
>  Options enabled:           R profiling
>
>  Recommended packages:      yes
>
> configure:47559: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R 
> manuals
>
> and make and make check seem to run smoothly, however "make install" dies 
> with
> the following messages:

As far as I can see something has deleted doc/html/resources.html: it is 
in the tarball. I cannot immediately guess what: have you done any sort of 
`make clean'?

Copying it from the virgin sources and doing `make install' again should 
fix this: if not perhaps you can keep an eye on what is apparently 
removing it.

BTW, where did /usr/local/bin/install come from?  If that is not doing 
what is expected, it could be the problem.

> ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu# make install
> installing doc ...
> creating doc/html/resources.html
> *** Error code 255
> The following command caused the error:
> false --html --no-split --no-headers ./resources.texi -o ../html/ 
> resources.html
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `../html/resources.html'
> Current working directory /usr/local/encap/R-2.1.0/doc/manual
> installing doc/html ...
> installing doc/html/search ...
> /usr/local/bin/install: resources.html: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> for f in resources.html; do \
>  /usr/local/bin/install -c -m 644 ${f} "/usr/local/lib/R/doc/html"; \
> done
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
> Current working directory /usr/local/encap/R-2.1.0/doc/html
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> for d in html manual; do \
>  (cd ${d} && make install) || exit 1; \
> done
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
> Current working directory /usr/local/encap/R-2.1.0/doc
> *** Error code 1
> The following command caused the error:
> for d in m4 tools doc etc share src po tests; do \
>  (cd ${d} && make install) || exit 1; \
> done
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
>
> and running R from the bin directory gives:
>
>> capabilities()
>    jpeg      png    tcltk      X11 http/ftp  sockets   libxml     fifo
>   FALSE    FALSE    FALSE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>  cledit  IEEE754    iconv
>    TRUE     TRUE    FALSE
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  With solaris 9 we had a 64 bit 
> build
> but never encounter such problems, and I don't see anything in the archives 
> or the
> install manual that is relevant -- but of course, I'm not very clear about 
> what I'm looking
> for either.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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