[R] problem in making R from sources on SGI IRIX

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "AH" == Andrew Hill <AHill at genetics.com> writes:

    AH> I am trying to install R 1.3.0 on SGI IRIX.  I downloaded the .tar
    AH> from CRAN, unpacked it and executed the following commands from the
    AH> top level directory:

    AH> ./configure
    AH> make

    AH> The ./configure completes OK, with the final summary output:
    AH> --------------------
    AH> R is now configured for mips-sgi-irix6.5

    AH> Source directory:          .
    AH> Installation directory:    /usr/local
    AH> C compiler:                gcc  -g -O2
    AH> C++ compiler:              c++  -g -O2
    AH> FORTRAN compiler:          g77  -g -O2

    AH> X11 support:               yes
    AH> Gnome support:             no
    AH> Tcl/Tk support:            no

    AH> R profiling support:       yes
    AH> R as a shared library:     no

    AH> -----------------

    AH> Following that, the make appears to complete OK with some non-fatal
    AH> linker warnings.

Funny. From what you show below,  "make" didn't
properly create the base package or did not at the proper place 
which from your toplevel is
      ./library/base/R/base  (a file with some 22000 lines, some 700k bytes)

(or you didn't give us the whole story above)

    AH>   I then run "make check" and get the following error message:

    AH> ---------------
    AH> 22 gomez R-1.3.0> make check
    AH> creating tests/Makefile
    AH> creating tests/Examples/Makefile
    AH> don't know how to make ../../library/base/R/base (bu42).
    AH> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
    AH> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
    AH> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
    AH> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
    AH> ------------------

    AH> At this point, if I try running R (i.e. the "R" script in the /bin directory) I get the following fatal error:
    AH> -----------------------------
    AH> 25 gomez bin> R

    AH> R : Copyright 2001, The R Development Core Team
    AH> Version 1.3.0  (2001-06-22)

    AH> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    AH> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
    AH> Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details.

    AH> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
    AH> Type `contributors()' for more information.

    AH> Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or
    AH> `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
    AH> Type `q()' to quit R.

    AH> Fatal error: unable to open the base package
    AH> ----------------------------

    AH> Can anyone offer any advice on what my problem is?  I guess that
    AH> the base package is not being made properly?  

yes; it should happen from 
 ./src/library/Makefile 
and
 ./src/library/base/Makefile 
You could manually say "make" inside these directories and "monitor" what
happens. 

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
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