[R] Unable to compile R-2.1.0

[Rainer Hurling]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> This has been reported to R-bugs twice already (and also on the lists): 
> it seems autoconf and FreeBSD are making different assumptions.
> 
> If you look in today's R-devel archive you will see the requests for 
> information I set on the second report.
> 
> It seems no one using FreeBSD ever tested the alphas or betas of R 2.1.0.

In the last years there were no serious problems with R on FreeBSD. So 
most of us FreeBSD users never had to test alphas and betas :-)

But you are right, we should test them from now on, thank you for this 
advice.


On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 v.demartino2 at virgilio.it wrote:
>> I downloaded the latest R-2.1.0 tarball from cran (the one of 18/4/05) to
>> compile it under FreeBSD. Take into account that I compiled R-2.0.1 in 
>> the
>> same machine and OS like a charme, flawlessly and at the very fiirst 
>> shot.
>>
>> Now with R-2.1.0, ./configure doesn't seem to say anything alarming but
>> make stops. Here an extract of both ./configure and make:
>>
>> # ./configure
>> ..................................
>> R is now configured for i386-unknown-freebsd5.4
>>
>>  Source directory:          .
>>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>>
>>  C compiler:                gcc -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -g -O2
>>  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>>  Fortran compiler:          f77  -g -O2
>>
>>  Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
>>  External libraries:        readline, BLAS(ATLAS)
>>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS
>>  Options enabled:           R profiling
>>
>>  Recommended packages:      yes
>>
>> configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R 
>> manuals

The last problem, reported by the configure script, has a solution:
To build the html and info versions of the R manuals you need at least 
Makeinfo 4.7. In FreeBSD6-CURRENT there had been an update a few days 
ago from Makeinfo 4.6 to 4.8. For other versions of FreeBSD (including 
5.4) you can install a new version via the ports system (print/texinfo).


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