[Rd] Problem installing R-devel dated 4 March 2016.

[Rolf Turner]

On 06/03/16 21:27, peter dalgaard wrote:
> Hm, we'll likely never find out. It looks a bit like a race condition
> or a Makefile deficiency in which some dependencies are not
> explicitly recorded (so that it tries to copy files before they have
> been made). I suppose that could happen if you try "make install" w/o
> a preceding "make".

I am *certain* that the latter contretemps did not occur.  I *know* that
I did a make.  Of course I *have* been known to be certain of things 
that weren't actually true ....  But in this instance .....

As you say, we'll never find out.

cheers,

Rolf

>
> -pd
>
>> On 06 Mar 2016, at 04:54 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks Peter.  I tried running the uninstalled R; it worked.  I checked on the existence of FAQ, etc. --- yep everything was there.  I don't know about over-zealous virus checkers; I haven't overtly installed any such.
>>
>> So, mystified, I started all over again from scratch.  This time it worked; seamlessly.
>>
>> Totally mysterious.  Story of my life.  Be that as it were, all systems are go now, and my package checking was successful.
>>
>> Sorry for the noise.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>> --
>> Technical Editor ANZJS
>> Department of Statistics
>> University of Auckland
>> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
>>
>> On 06/03/16 03:10, peter dalgaard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05 Mar 2016, at 03:35 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to install the latest development version of R so as to be able to perform a package check according the rules specified for CRAN.
>>>>
>>>> I performed the following steps:
>>>>
>>>> (1) Downloaded  R-devel.tar.gz, dated 04-Mar-2016 03:21, from CRAN
>>>> (2) Upacked.
>>>> (3) Created directory "BldDir" next to the directory "R-devel".
>>>> (4) Changed directories to BldDir.
>>>> (5) Executed  ../R-devel/configure --with-tcltk --with-cairo .
>>>> (6) Executed make .
>>>> (7) Executed sudo make install .
>>>>
>>>> I got the error messages:
>>>>   .
>>>>   .
>>>>   .
>>>>> mkdir -p -- /usr/local/lib64/R/doc
>>>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `FAQ': No such file or directory
>>>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `RESOURCES': No such file or directory
>>>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS': No such file or directory
>>>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.pdf': No such file or directory
>>>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.rds': No such file or directory
>>>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS': No such file or directory
>>>>> /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `NEWS.pdf': No such file or directory
>>>>> make[1]: *** [install-sources2] Error 1
>>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rolf/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/doc'
>>>>> make: *** [install] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> Can someone/anyone tell me what I am missing or doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Beats me. & I just checked that make install works on my system (usually, I just run test versions out of their build dirs).
>>>
>>> You might check a couple of things though:
>>>
>>> - does ~/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/bin/R work?
>>> - does ~/Desktop/R-dev-inst/BldDir/doc/FAQ et al. actually exist?
>>> - is there an overzealous virus checker active (those have been known to move fresh files to "safe locations" right under peoples feet...)
>>>
>>> -pd
>>>
>>>
>>>> Ta.
>>
>>
>>