[Rd] cannot compile on solaris

[Erich Neuwirth]

mystery solved.
the machine did not have perl installed.
BUT
probably there should be a more informative warning message,
and perhaps configure should complain more audibly.


Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> 
> > on my old sun ipx with gcc and texinfo installed
> > u run ./configure ok, and then i get
> >
> > [szego@neuwirth:/install/R-1.0.0] make
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/install/R-1.0.0/tools'
> > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `R'.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/install/R-1.0.0/tools'
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/install/R-1.0.0/afm'
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/install/R-1.0.0/afm'
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/install/R-1.0.0/doc'
> > false: false: cannot open
> > make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/install/R-1.0.0/doc'
> > make: *** [R] Error 1
> >
> > what is happening?
> 
> false should be in /usr/bin/false:
> auk% which false
> /usr/bin/false
> auk% ls -l `which false`
> -r-xr-xr-x   1 bin      bin           314 Jul 16  1997 /usr/bin/false*
> 
> It is not clear from your output what this is trying to do: I get
> auk% make -n R
> /opt/R/cvs/R/tools/mkinstalldirs ../doc/html/search
> cat /opt/R/cvs/R/doc/html/search/SearchEngine-head.html > \
>   ../doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html
> ../tools/keywords2html /opt/R/cvs/R/doc/KEYWORDS.db >> \
>   ../doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html
> cat /opt/R/cvs/R/doc/html/search/SearchEngine-foot.html >> \
>   ../doc/html/search/SearchEngine.html
> if [ "/opt/R/cvs/R/doc" != "." ]; then \
>   make rhome=.. install-html; \
>   (cd manual && make R); \
> fi
> echo "installing doc ..."
> ...
> 
> so one of these is failing (and I think not the if clause as that should
> echo something). Can you do the same and track down what has not been
> created?
> 
> --
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