[Rd] 2.3.0 make install fails on solaris

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is already changed in R-patched: please use that.

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> writes:
>
>> hello r development team,
>>
>> i'm building R 2.3.0 on solaris and when i run the 'make install' i'm
>> getting a syntax error during the "installing etc ..." which causes the
>> installation to fail. i get this error whether i use gnu-make of
>> sun-make, see the error and reasons below.
>>
>> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/export/medusa/darin/build/R-2.3.0/etc'
>> installing etc ...
>> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
>> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `for f in ; do  /opt/csw/bin/ginstall -c -m 644
>> ${f} "/export/home/darin/build/R-2.3.0/cswstage/opt/csw/lib/R/etc";  done'
>> gmake[1]: *** [install] Error 2
>> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/medusa/darin/build/R-2.3.0/etc'
>> gmake: *** [install] Error 1
>>
>> in etc/Makefile if i comment lines 60-62 make install continues without
>> incident, here are those lines.
>>
>>          @for f in $(EXPORTFILES); do \
>>            $(INSTALL_DATA) $${f} "$(rhome)/$(subdir)"; \
>>          done
>>
>> this has changed from R-2.2.1.
>>
>> diff etc/Makefile ../R-2.2.1/etc/Makefile"
>>
>> 60c52
>> <       @for f in $(EXPORTFILES); do \
>> ---
>> >       @for f in $(OBJECTS) $(EXPORTFILES); do \
>>
>> should i open a bug for this issue? i'm also curious as to if this has
>> come up on other platforms.
>
> It only happens if your bash is old enough. I get the
>
> rubin:~/> for f in ; do echo $f ; done
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> rubin:~/>help
> GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.9)
> for f in ; do echo $f ; done
>
> but not on Linux boxes with bash 3.x. However, I don't think we assume
> bash 3.x (or bash as such for that matter and sh has same issue on
> Solaris 9), so it is indeed a bug.
>
>

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