[R] R-Installation on Unix -- "Make: Don't know how to make #. Stop."

[Prof Brian Ripley]

(a) Most likely you need GNU make: what are you using?  (See the 'R 
Installation and Administration' manual.)  This does not look like 
normal GNU make (which does not call itself 'Make').

(b) R-devel is the list for such questions: see the posting guide.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Zhou, Hong wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> ./configure was run successfully on my HP-UX ia64 server with exit=0, but when type make at prompt, get this error "Make: Don't know how to make #.  Stop."  Does anyone has any clues about this message? Thank you very much!
> #make
> Rmath.h is unchanged
> `libRblas.sl' is up to date.
> /app/R/R-2.13.0/lib/libRblas.sl is unchanged
> `libbz2.a' is up to date.
> `libpcre.a' is up to date.
> `libz.a' is up to date.
> ../../../src/include/libintl.h is unchanged
> ../../../include/libintl.h is unchanged
> `charsetalias.h' is up to date.
> `libintl.a' is up to date.
> `libtre.a' is up to date.
> `liblzma.a' is up to date.
> Make: Don't know how to make #.  Stop.
> *** Error exit code 1
> Stop.
> Hong
>
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