[Rd] Matrix package: compilation error

[Rainer Hurling]

Thank you Hin-Tak Leung,

on Saturday, 31th, Brian Ripley and Martin Maechler showed me the use of 
gmake without linking make against gmake:

   setenv MAKE gmake
   R CMD INSTALL Matrix_0.9975-11.tar.gz
   unsetenv MAKE
   R CMD INSTALL spdep_0.4-2.tar.gz

Everything works fine now. However, on my wishlist is a general way to 
integrate "the search for gmake on systems like FreeBSD" in the 
configure script of packages like Matrix ... ;-)

Rainer Hurling


Hin-Tak Leung schrieb:
> Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> Thanks, Brian and Martin,
>>
>> I think you are both right, Matrix tries to use BSD make 
>> (/usr/bin/make) on FreeBSD instead of GNU make (/usr/local/bin/gmake).
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't know how to persuade the configure script to use 
>> gmake :-(
> 
> easy -
> 
> mkdir ~/mynewbin
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/gmake ~/mynewbin/make
> export PATH=${HOME}/mynewbin:${PATH}
> 
> Then run "R CMD INSTALL ..." as you did.
> 
> and afterwards, "rm -rf ~/mynewbin". (I hope I don't need to explain
> what the 3 lines above do...)
> 
> HTL
> 
> 
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> Prof Brian Ripley schrieb:
>>> This is because of the GNUism in Matrix/src/Makefile
>>>
>>> ## get rid of this, once we have 'Depends: R (>= 2.5.0)':
>>> ifeq (, $(findstring -lRlapack, $(LAPACK_LIBS)))
>>> SOURCES_LAPACK =
>>> else
>>> SOURCES_LAPACK = zpotf2.f zpotrf.f zlacgv.f
>>> endif
>>>
>>> I guess you know what you need to do to fix it for BSD make?
>>>
>>> On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trying to compile the package Matrix_0.9975-11.tar.gz with newest
>>>> R-2.5.0 alpha (2007-03-31 r40986) on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (i386) I get
>>>> the following error:
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> R CMD INSTALL Matrix_0.9975-11.tar.gz
>>>> * Installing to library '/usr/local/lib/R/library'
>>>> * Installing *source* package 'Matrix' ...
>>>> ** libs
>>>> ** arch -
>>>> "Makefile", line 10: Missing dependency operator
>>>> "Makefile", line 12: Need an operator
>>>> "Makefile", line 14: Need an operator
>>>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>>>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Matrix'
>>>> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/Matrix'
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Under FreeBSD I have installed the LAPACK package (3.0.2) with library
>>>> at location
>>>>
>>>> /usr/local/lib/liblapack.so.4
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible that the Makefile of package Matrix fails because of 
>>>> that?
>>> Not used unless you asked for it during R's configure.
>>>
>>
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