[Rd] Solaris Installation assstance

[Prof Brian Ripley]

We need to see what happened prior to that message: plaes give the 
previous 20 lines of output.

We do know R 2.1.1 works on Solaris 2.8 out of the box: the see the 
comments in the R-admin manual.  For example, what compilers are you 
using? What make?

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Givens, Jimmie D. wrote:

> If anyone has suggestion as to the resolve for the problem described
> below, your assistance is needed and will be greatly appreciated.
>
> After repeated attempts to install R on a Sun Micro System Sunfire 480
> with Solaris 2.8 OS (Unix), I have not been successful in completing the
> installation of R v2.1.1 nor the earlier versions? At the close of
> the "make" command error codes 255 and 1 occur.
>
> Make: Fatal error: command failed for target 'libbz2.a'
>           Working directory /usr/local/R-2.1.1/src/extra/bzip2
>
> Make: Fatal error: command failed for target 'R'
>           Working directory /usr/local/R-2.1.1/src/extra/bzip2
>
> Make: Fatal error: command failed for target 'R'
>           Working directory /usr/local/R-2.1.1/src/extra/bzip2
>
> Make: Fatal error: command failed for target 'R'
>           Working directory /usr/local/R-2.1.1/src/extra
>
> Make: Fatal error: command failed for target 'R"
>           Working directory /usr/local/R-2.1.1/src
>
>
>
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