[R] 2.0.1 compilation problem on Fedora Core 2

[John Logsdon]

A useful clue, Brian.  Maybe this is the reason as foreign.ts.out
contains:

* Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/R-2.0.1/bin/INSTALL: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: Permission denied
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'foreign'

Does this try and execute from /tmp by any chance?  I had a similar
problem recently because /tmp is mounted (rw,noexec,nosuid) for security
reasons.  I had to alter /etc/fstab temporarily and reboot as /tmp is used
by many things.

The others installed so far have 0 size:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 Dec  1 15:19 VR.ts
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 Dec  1 15:19 boot.ts
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    196 Dec  1 15:20 foreign.ts.out
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 Dec  1 15:20 cluster.ts

John

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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, John Logsdon wrote:
> 
> > I have a compilation problem on FC2, 2xXeon box.
> >
> > The following dialogue output from the end of the compilation illustrates:
> >
> > [very large snipping sound ...]
> > * DONE (cluster)
> > begin installing recommended package foreign
> > make[2]: *** [foreign.ts] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory
> > `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/R-2.0.1/src/library/Recommended'
> 
> Take a look at the file foreign.out in that directory.  (R-devel does this 
> better, by cat-ing the file at that point.)
> 
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