[Rd] d_fontdb.d, g_her_glyph.d

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Matthias Kohl wrote:

> Dear Developers,
>
> I'm updating my R installation via svn (currently: Revision 44626). For
> some time now (sorry don't know the exact revision number) make for R
> devel yields the following error

You need to start a clean build: you are updating from a rather old one.
Try something like

make distclean
./configure
make

In some cases (and this was one) if you update every day it may work, but 
in a few cases you will need to rebuild from scratch after a change.

>
> make[4]: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Target
> »../../../src/include/R_ext/GraphicsBase.h«,
>  benötigt von »g_fontdb.o«, zu erstellen.  Schluss.
>
> (translation: no rule to make target ... needed from ...)
>
> The file "g_fontdb.d" (and also g_her_glyph.d) has the last line
> ../../../src/include/R_ext/GraphicsBase.h
>
> Is this line obligate due to 1) in
> https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/270update.txt
> ?
>
> At least, if I remove this last line in these two files make runs
> without an error.
> Is there another explanation for this error?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Matthias
>
> #################################
> My configure output is:
> R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
>  Source directory:          .
>  Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>  C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
>  Fortran 77 compiler:       g77  -g -O2
>
>  C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>  Fortran 90/95 compiler:    g77 -g -O2
>  Obj-C compiler:
>
>  Interfaces supported:      X11, tcltk
>  External libraries:        readline
>  Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, iconv, MBCS, NLS, cairo
>  Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling, Java
>
>  Recommended packages:      yes
>
> #################################
> my system is: (sessionInfo from R version 2.6.2 Patched (2008-02-10 r44423))
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> --
> Dr. Matthias Kohl
> www.stamats.de
>
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