[Rd] Re: [R] Trouble compiling R-1.3.0 under Tru64

Kurt Hornik Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:06:47 +0200


>>>>> Kjetil Kjernsmo writes:

> Dear all,

> I have some difficulty getting R-1.3.0 to run on the alpha, with osf4.0e
> (Tru64, or whatever they call it... :-) ).

> configure reports the following configuration:
> R is now configured for alphaev6-dec-osf4.0e

>   Source directory:          .
>   Installation directory:    /astro/local
>   C compiler:                gcc  -mieee -g -O2
>   C++ compiler:              c++  -g -O2
>   FORTRAN compiler:          f77  -fpe3 -g

>   X11 support:               yes
>   Gnome support:             no
>   Tcl/Tk support:            no

>   R profiling support:       yes
>   R as a shared library:     no

> configure: warning: you cannot build info versions of the R manuals

> The compilation seems to run smoothly for a while, but stops with when
> building ctest:
> Make: Cannot open ../../../../share/make/../../../../etc/Makeconf.  Stop.
> It seems to be looking in the wrong place. I'm allready on thin ice, but I
> tried to set R_HOME to the source directory, which is
> /mn/alnair/u1/kjetikj/src/R-1.3.0/ It didn't work, but then I edited
> share/make/shlib.mk to say
> include /mn/alnair/u1/kjetikj/src/R-1.3.0/etc/Makeconf
> and that seemed to work, the make was completed. I guess I might have done
> something entirely wrong here, though, that may be the cause of the
> subsequent crash.

Why would you get 
  ../../../../share/make/../../../../etc/Makeconf
(all in one)?

The ctest Makefile has

top_builddir = ../../../..
R_HOME = $(top_builddir)
include $(top_builddir)/share/make/shlib.mk

and shlib.mk has

include $(R_HOME)/etc/Makeconf

???

Which version of make is this?

-k
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