[R] error during make of R-patched on Fedora core 2

[Gavin Simpson]

Dear list,

I've just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and seeing as there wasn't an rpm 
for this OS on CRAN yet I thought it was about time I had a go at 
compiling R myself. Having run into the X11 problem I switched to trying 
to install R-patched. I followed the instructions in the R Installation 
& Admin manual to download the sources of the Recommended packages and 
place the files in R_HOME/src/library/Recommended. ./configure worked 
fine so I progressed to make, which has hit upon this error when the 
process arrived at the Recommended packages:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
building/updating vignettes for package 'grid' ...
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library'
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `survival.ts', needed by 
`stamp-recommended'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/gavin/tmp/R-patched/src/library/Recommended'
make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2

Being a relative newbie to Linux I have no-idea how to continue to solve 
this issue :-(

The only difference I can see between the /src/library/Recommended 
directories of R-1.9.0 and R-patched is that in R-1.9.0 it contains 
links to each of the tar.gz (excluding the version info) as well as the 
tar.gz themselves for each of the packages. Is this in some way related 
to my problem?

If anyone can help me solve this issue I'd be most grateful.

Thanks in advance,

Gavin
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