[Rd] (PR#6815): build fails for foreign with Sun Forte

[Prof Brian Ripley]

There is nothing here to reproduce, as *we* said earlier!  We need the
exact details (OS, compilers, R version, make version, environmental
variables, configure command line etc) just to document the problem. You
have not mentioned what goes wrong nor given any error messages.

To repeat, R 1.9.0 *does* build on Sun Solaris 8 and 9 using the Sun Forte
7 aka Pro One compilers.  The problem is something about your setup, and
in particular is the separate installation works it looks like a bug in
either your make or your shell -- so exactly which versions are they?


On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 rsparapa at post.its.mcw.edu wrote:

> This is a reproducible bug that I reported earlier.  The work-around is to 
> remove the link foreign.tgz so that the build does not attempt to create the 
> foreign library.  However, there is actually nothing wrong with the foreign 
> source so the problem must be somewhere in the configure process.  After make 
> install, then use the original source as follows and everything should work:
> R CMD INSTALL foreign_0.6-6.tar.gz

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595