[Rd] make fails with no rule to make target `VR.ts'

[Hiroyuki Kawakatsu]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:01 PM, I wrote:
> When trying to build R-devel.tar.bz2 (SVN-REVISION: 47015) I am
> getting the error:
>
[...]
> gmake[2]: *** No rule to make target `VR.ts', needed by
> `stamp-recommended'.  Stop.
[...]
> This is on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (amd64) with
>
> ./configure MAKE=gmake CC=gcc44 F77=gfortran44 FC=gfortran44 CXX=g++44
> OBJC=gcc44 R_BROWSER=/usr/local/bin/firefox3
>
> This used to build fine until a few weeks ago. Any hints for what may
> be going wrong?

I have finally tracked down the source of error. A diff between the
2008-11-18-2008 (builds ok) and 2008-11-19 (build fails as above) tar
balls shows that the *.tgz link files are missing in
R_HOME/src/library/Recommended/
in the latter tar ball. Once I manually created the links, gmake runs
fine. Is this an omission or something to do with the way I am
unpacking the tar balls? (I presume most people who build R-devel
simply check out from trunk?)

h.
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