[Rd] Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 24/10/2014, 12:44 PM, Mike Beddo wrote:
> I'm building R-3.1.1 (64 bit) from source on AIX 7.1. It was going well until I hit this:
> 
> xlc_r -q64 -Wl,-brtl -Wl,-G -Wl,-bexpall -Wl,-bnoentry -lc -L/opt/freeware/lib64 -L/opt/freeware/lib -Wl,-blibpath:/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib:/usr/lib:/lib -Wl,-bmaxdata:0x80000000 -o tools.so text.o init.o Rmd5.o md5.o signals.o install.o getfmts.o http.o gramLatex.o gramRd.o -lm
> make[6]: Entering directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools/src'
> mkdir -p -- ../../../../library/tools/libs
> make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools/src'
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools/src'
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools'
> Error: Line starting 'Package: tools ...' is malformed!
> Execution halted
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library/tools'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src/library'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/meb/source/R-3.1.1/src'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
> $ oslevel
> 7.1.0.0
> 
> Can someone help?

That error looks as though it is coming from R when it is trying to read
a DCF file, most likely the DESCRIPTION file for the tools package.
Have you edited that file?

Duncan Murdoch