[R] Problem with installation of littler-0.0.10. under Free BSD 6.2

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 12 March 2007 at 13:38, ronggui wrote:
| MyBSD% ./configure
| checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
| checking whether build environment is sane... yes
| checking for gawk... no
| checking for mawk... no
| checking for nawk... nawk
| checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
| checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsd6.2
| checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd6.2
| checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
| checking for gcc... gcc
| checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
| checking whether the C compiler works... yes
| checking whether we are cross compiling... no
| checking for suffix of executables...
| checking for suffix of object files... o
| checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
| checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
| checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
| checking for style of include used by make... GNU
| checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
| checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
| checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
| checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
| checking for ANSI C header files... yes
| checking for sys/types.h... yes
| checking for sys/stat.h... yes
| checking for stdlib.h... yes
| checking for string.h... yes
| checking for memory.h... yes
| checking for strings.h... yes
| checking for inttypes.h... yes
| checking for stdint.h... yes
| checking for unistd.h... yes
| checking stdio.h usability... yes
| checking stdio.h presence... yes
| checking for stdio.h... yes
| checking for string.h... (cached) yes
| checking errno.h usability... yes
| checking errno.h presence... yes
| checking for errno.h... yes
| checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
| checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
| checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
| checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
| checking getopt.h usability... yes
| checking getopt.h presence... yes
| checking for getopt.h... yes
| checking whether sys/types.h defines makedev... yes
| checking for setenv... yes
| checking for gettimeofday... yes
| checking for time... yes
| checking for R... /usr/local/bin/R
| checking if R was built as a shared library... yes
| checking for install_name_tool... no
| configure: creating ./config.status
| config.status: creating Makefile
| config.status: creating config.h
| config.status: config.h is unchanged
| config.status: executing depfiles commands
| MyBSD% make
| R_HOME= /usr/local/bin/R --silent --vanilla --slave <  > autoloads.h
| Syntax error: redirection unexpected
| *** Error code 2
| 
| Stop in /home/ronggui/software/littler-0.0.10.
| 
| Anyone knows why and any hints to the solution? Thanks in advance.

Jeff and I know that the world was created inside a bash shell.  

Seriously, can you try running configure inside a shell with working redirects?
If you can't then you may need to simulate by hand what this would do,
outside of configure, and then run make.

Let us know.

Dirk

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