[Rd] R-beta does not install on FreeBSD

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Can you track down which Makefile this is and what line 28 is?

My guess is that your make does not like the comment character at 
line 24 in po/Makefile.in.in, in which case please delete the line.

But the BSD-like makes on Solaris and MacOS have no problem with it.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Rainer Hurling wrote:

> I am trying to install R-beta_2008-08-16_r46368.tar.gz on FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT 
> (i386). The code stops compiling with the following message:
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> [.. snip ..]
> building package 'tcltk'
> mkdir ../../../library/tcltk
> mkdir ../../../library/tcltk/R
> mkdir ../../../library/tcltk/demo
> mkdir ../../../library/tcltk/exec
> mkdir ../../../library/tcltk/po
> mkdir ../../../library/tcltk/man
> making init.d from init.c
> making tcltk.d from tcltk.c
> making tcltk_unix.d from tcltk_unix.c
> `Makedeps' is up to date.
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../../../include -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.4 
> -I/usr/local/include/tk8.4 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic 
> -g -O2 -c init.c -o init.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../../../include -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.4 
> -I/usr/local/include/tk8.4 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic 
> -g -O2 -c tcltk.c -o tcltk.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../../../include -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.4 
> -I/usr/local/include/tk8.4 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -fpic 
> -g -O2 -c tcltk_unix.c -o tcltk_unix.o
> gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o tcltk.so init.o tcltk.o 
> tcltk_unix.o  -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl84 -L/usr/local/lib -ltk84 
> -L/usr/local/lib -lX11 -lm
> mkdir ../../../../library/tcltk/libs
> installing parsed NAMESPACE files
> "Makefile", line 28: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/local/R-beta.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> This happens with all recent beta versions. R version 2.7.1 Patched 
> (2008-08-10 r46284) installed and worked fine.
>
> Could this be a bug with R-beta or is there something wrong with my FreeBSD 
> version?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rainer Hurling
>
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