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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Atro Tossavainen wrote:

> Dear Prof Ripley,
>
> > Thank you for the reply.  Setting these variables explicitly on the make
> > install line should help.
>
> I just fixed them in Makeconf explicitly and it's OK now.
>
> > I have a guess at the shell problem.  Configure contains
> >
> > if test -z ${rdocdir}; then
> >   rdocdir='${rhome}/doc'
> > fi
> >
> > and maybe test -z is broken.  Does it help to add quotes as in
> >
> > if test -z "${rdocdir}"; then
>
> Yes, that's the trick.

We'll alter the script in that case.  Thanks for testing the fix.

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