[Rd] Problem building methods package?

[Stefano Iacus]

Yes Brian is right.
It builds fine with the same tools you have Byron.
Just try to remove the built version of methods or do what Brian 
suggested.
stefano

On Domenica, set 14, 2003, at 09:23 Europe/Rome, Prof Brian Ripley 
wrote:

> methods changed to use a NAMESPACE about last weekend.  It does build 
> now
> (there were several days with problems), but you will need to rebuild 
> it
> from scratch.  Either do make distclean; ./configure ...  or at least
> remove library/methods and src/library/methods/all.R and remake.
>
> (And since I have been in Milan working with Stefano, I know it now 
> builds
> on MacOS X too.)
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Byron Ellis wrote:
>
>> For the last, I dunno, week or so I've been unable to build R... I
>> finally took the time to investigate and the crash is in building
>> 'methods':
>>
>> all.R is unchanged
>> ../../../library/methods/man/methods.Rd is unchanged
>> make[2]: `Makedeps' is up to date.
>> ../../../../library/methods/libs/methods.so is unchanged
>> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Rfiles'.
>
> No `crash' shown!
>
>> Any clues to where this came from? Regenerating the Makefiles didn't
>> seem to help. OS X, 10.2.6, gcc3.3 rsync about 6 hours old. Should I
>> just nuke the whole build tree and rsync everything again?
>
> If you build in a separate tree the last step is never needed.
>
> -- 
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