[Rd] R 2.2.1 installation trouble on SGI/Sun (PR#8575)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Please do not send questions to R-bugs (especially as well as to R-devel).

The thing you are getting as "" is from (see doc/Makefile)
           $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/$${f} "$(rdocdir)"; \

What is rdocdir set to in Makeconf?  It (and related quantities) should be

rhome = ${libdir}/R
rsharedir = ${rhome}/share
rincludedir = ${rhome}/include
rdocdir = ${rhome}/doc

unless you set something non-standard during configure.  (If you did not, 
the code is very simple and anything else here would seem to indicate a 
bug in the shell used, but please debug it.)

Solaris 7 is very old: this does work on Solaris 8 (from where I copied 
the above).  You can always specify it on the make install line (as 
described in the R-admin manual you were pointed to).


On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 Atro.Tossavainen at helsinki.fi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm upgrading to R 2.2.1 and have bumped into some problems.
>
> I have been successful with installing on x86 and PPC Linux, but am
> unable to install R on Solaris 7 and on IRIX 6.5.  Configuration
> and compilation go through just fine, but "make install" fails:
>
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/atossava/R-2.2.1/doc'
> installing doc ...
> ../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
> ../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
> ../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
> gmake[1]: *** [install-sources] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/atossava/R-2.2.1/doc'
> gmake: *** [install] Error 1
>
> Running "gmake -n install" reveals this is because:
>
> echo "installing doc ..."
> /bin/ksh ../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs ""
> /bin/ksh ../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs /afs/bi/v/sun4x_57/apps/stats/R/2.2.1/man/man1
> for f in CRAN_mirrors.csv KEYWORDS KEYWORDS.db; do \
>  ../tools/install-sh -c -m 644 ./${f} ""; \
> done
>
> Any ideas what might be causing "" to appear as the destination directory?
>
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