R-devel Mac OSX build wierdness...

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Byron Ellis writes:

> I encountered some wierdness when building R-devel (latest rsync) on OSX
> using commandline tools (as opposed to the Carbon GUI and
> whatnot...probably just laziness on my part but it generally works :-)).

> At any rate, sometime between 2002-07-05 and the present the configure
> scripts started setting INSTALL_DATA to ${R_HOME}/bin/install -c in
> Makeconf...which causes wierdness for the Mac OSX (10.1.5) version of sh
> (which is actually zsh I believe) as it tries to use INSTALL and make
> simply fails. Of course, even with a sensible shell this should fail as
> ${R_HOME}/bin/install doesn't exist. Changing this to '/usr/bin/install
> -c' allowed the build to proceed normally.

Hard to believe.  The Autoconf code has

[AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_INSTALL])
case "${INSTALL}" in
  [[\\/]]* | ?:[[\\/]]* ) # absolute
    ;;
  *)
    INSTALL="\$\(top_srcdir\)/tools/install-sh -c"
    ;;
esac
])# R_PROG_INSTALL

so either you end up with something absolute or the string in the
default clause.

I assume this is a combination of you putting R_HOME/bin in your PATH
and MacOSX being case-insensitive in some cases?

-k
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