[Rd] Recent snapshot tarballs of R-devel don't compile
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Dec 5 08:45:13 CET 2008
[oops .. I wanted to send this off one day earlier ...]
>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>>>> on Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:30:04 +0000 (GMT) writes:
BDR> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, hpages at fhcrc.org wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Trying to compile one of the latest snapshot tarballs of
>> R-devel gives me the following error (64-bit openSUSE
>> 10.3):
BDR> We don't know what file that is, though. Problems with
BDR> snapshots need to be reported to the site which makes
BDR> them.
BDR> Perhaps you mean
BDR> ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-devel_2008-12-03.tar.bz2
BDR> ? In which case see the README in that directory for
BDR> how to report a problem.
>> ... make[2]: Entering directory
>> `/loc/home/biocbuild/bbs-2.4-bioc/R/src/library/Recommended'
>> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `VR.ts', needed by
>> `stamp-recommended'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory
>> `/loc/home/biocbuild/bbs-2.4-bioc/R/src/library/Recommended'
>> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 make[1]:
>> Leaving directory
>> `/loc/home/biocbuild/bbs-2.4-bioc/R/src/library/Recommended'
>> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
>>
>> Maybe because these tarballs don't contain the symlinks
>> that are normally defined in the src/library/Recommended/
>> folder?
BDR> Maybe, in which case running tools/link-recommended
BDR> will fix it. Works for me with the snapshot mentioned
BDR> above.
Yes.
But also we know that we don't want to require that from people
working with the tarball.
The question remains why the automated build procedures ... that
I have setup and have been running for years,
suddenly fail to put the *.tgz symbolic links into
src/library/Recommended/ as they used to.
>>
>> Cheers, H.
>>
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