[Rd] make check fails in r49613

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Tue Sep 8 12:42:04 CEST 2009


On 08/09/2009 6:32 AM, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:
> 2009/9/8 Uwe Ligges wrote:
>> I have successfully build r49614 this morning. Have you tried to do a clean
>> build from a fresh source directory? Do you have some library with old
>> packages in your search path?
> 
> Ah, thanks for this. After removing library/ and rebuilding, I now
> pass -(g)make check-. I now see the message 'Extracting from parsed
> Rd's' which i didn't see before. And I now vaguely recall seeing
> something about the new Rd conversion mechanism.
> 
> R-admin recommends not to build in the top-level source directory
> (which I do) when working with svn. Does this mean that after I check
> out from svn, I now need to remove library/ every time before I do
> -make- and -make check-? Or is this a one-time thing?

Somewhere between.  It's usually okay to build there, but not always. 
When things get weird, it's worth doing a clean build just to check if 
you're in one of the cases where it's not okay.

Duncan Murdoch



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