[R] build fails to build help for nlme

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I have once seen this when a disc became full.

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Seth Falcon wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to build R-1.8.1 from source on Linux and getting the
> following error when the makefile gets to the step of building the help
> for 'nlme':
> 
> <snip>
> ranef.lme                         text    html    latex   example
> reStruct                          text    html    latex   example
> /home/sfalcon/sw/R-related/R-1.8.1/bin/INSTALL: line 1:  8133 Segmentation fault      ${R_CMD} perl "${R_HOME}/share/perl/build-help.pl" ${build_help_opts} "${pkg_dir}" "${lib}" "${R_PACKAGE_DIR}" "${pkg_name}"
> ERROR: building help failed for package 'nlme'
> ** Removing '/home/sfalcon/sw/R-related/R-1.8.1/library/nlme'
> make[2]: *** [nlme.ts] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/sfalcon/sw/R-related/R-1.8.1/src/library/Recommended'
> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/sfalcon/sw/R-related/R-1.8.1/src/library/Recommended'
> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2
> </snip>
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this?
> 
> I've had no difficulties compiling previous versions of R on this
> machine.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> + seth
> 
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