[R] 2.0.1 compilation problem on Fedora Core 2

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, John Logsdon wrote:

> 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

Yes, it does, a configure script.  I believe you can alter that by setting 
TMPDIR to point somewhere else.  That's a pretty esoteric situation: why 
is /tmp so special to you?

> 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.)
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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