[R] Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On October 24, 2014 9:24:39 AM PDT, Mike Beddo <Mike.Beddo at dataventures.com> wrote:
>I'm building R-3.1.1 (64 bit) from source on AIX 7.1. It was going well
>until I hit this:
>
>xlc_r -q64 -Wl,-brtl -Wl,-G -Wl,-bexpall -Wl,-bnoentry -lc
>-L/opt/freeware/lib64 -L/opt/freeware/lib
>-Wl,-blibpath:/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib:/usr/lib:/lib
>-Wl,-bmaxdata:0x80000000 -o tools.so text.o init.o Rmd5.o md5.o
>signals.o install.o getfmts.o http.o gramLatex.o gramRd.o -lm
>make[6]: Entering directory
>`/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools/src'
>mkdir -p -- ../../../../library/tools/libs
>make[6]: Leaving directory
>`/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools/src'
>make[5]: Leaving directory
>`/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools/src'
>make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools'
>Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!
>Execution halted
>make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
>make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools'
>make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library'
>make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src'
>make: *** [R] Error 1
>$ oslevel
>7.1.0.0
>
>Can someone help?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike
>
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