[Rd] installing packages (PR#9907)

[Peter Dalgaard]

alexander.jerneck at gmail.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Alexander Jerneck
> Version: 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
> OS: Gentoo (2.6.17-custom kernel)
> Submission from: (NULL) (130.91.92.78)
>
>
> I had trouble installing R packages, either from inside R or from the
> commandline, with R complaining about not finding /usr/bin/pwd
> I have pwd in /bin/ so I created a symlink from /usr/bin/pwd to /bin/pwd and now
> I can install packages. I do not know where the original problem is however.
>   
Please don't report it as a bug then! Or at least do more of your 
homework first.

As far as I can see, this is handled by the configure script which goes 
looking for pwd and records the result in $GETWD (in Makeconf and the 
INSTALL and REMOVE scripts). If you compile on one system and run on 
another, strange things can and will happen if they do not have things 
in the same places.  There are a few other places where pwd is called 
directly (texi2dvi and libtool) but I don't think that can give the 
error message you describe.

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