[R] Problem with making Matrix

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You are mixing makes.  GNU make (presumably gmake) passes on its -w 
argument to sub-makes, and my guess is that make is a BSD make that does 
not accept it.

The simplest way out is to have the 'make' first in your path as GNU make 
whilst doing this.

BTW, this really is not the appropriate place: the posting guide suggests 
the maintainers and then R-devel.

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Andrew Robinson wrote:

> Hi R-help citizens,
>
> I'm having trouble making version 0.99-6 of Matrix on FreeBSD 6.0.
> The error message is:
>
>
> * Installing *source* package 'Matrix' ...
> ** libs
> gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R/include  -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c Csparse.c -o Csparse.o
>
> ... numerous lines deleted ...
>
> gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R/include  -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c triplet_to_col.c -o triplet_to_col.o
> f77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c zpotf2.f -o zpotf2.o
> f77   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c zpotrf.f -o zpotrf.o
> touch CHOLMOD.stamp UMFPACK.stamp COLAMD.stamp CCOLAMD.stamp AMD.stamp Metis.stamp LDL.stamp
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/R.INSTALL.WMODs1/Matrix/src/CHOLMOD'
> ( cd Lib ; make )
> make: don't know how to make w. Stop
> gmake[1]: *** [library] Error 2
>
>
> I am running:
>
>
>> version
>         _
> platform i386-unknown-freebsd6.0
> arch     i386
> os       freebsd6.0
> system   i386, freebsd6.0
> status
> major    2
> minor    2.1
> year     2005
> month    12
> day      20
> svn rev  36812
> language R
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20, i386-unknown-freebsd6.0
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
> [7] "base"
>
>
> NB I was able to install Matrix 0.98-7 using the FreeBSD make without any
> problem.  If I try to make version 0.99-6 using the FreeBSD make then
> it fails with "Missing dependency operator" errors.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Andrew
> -- 
> Andrew Robinson
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> University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia         Fax: +61-3-8344-4599
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>
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