[Rd] Installation fails on FreeBSD (PR#9293)

[p.smith at auckland.ac.nz]

Full_Name: Peter Smith
Version: 2.3.1
OS: FreeBSD 5.3
Submission from: (NULL) (219.88.191.10)


I'm installing R from the FreeBSD ports tree (i.e. running make from
/usr/ports/math/R). During the make, the following error message is generated.

<snip>
     Formats: text html latex example 
 >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'tcltk'
     Formats: text html latex example 
building/updating package indices ...
begin installing recommended package foreign
* Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
eval: ./configure: Permission denied
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'foreign'
<snip>

The problem seems to occur when the following command is executed.

MAKE="make" R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL --no-lock -l "../../../library"
foreign.tgz > foreign.ts.out 2>&1 || (cat foreign.ts.out && exit 1)


The contents of foreign.ts.out is:
* Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
eval: ./configure: Permission denied
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'foreign'
** Removing '/usr/ports/math/R/work/R-2.3.1/library/foreign