[R] Problem with making Matrix

[Andrew Robinson]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:05:22AM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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.

Thanks very much, that was just right.  I moved the original make, and
placed a symlink to gmake there instead.  Matrix then installed just fine. 

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

Ah, that was a mental slip.  My apologies.

Andrew

> 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
> >Department of Mathematics and Statistics            Tel: +61-3-8344-9763
> >University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia         Fax: +61-3-8344-4599
> >Email: a.robinson at ms.unimelb.edu.au         http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au
> >
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-- 
Andrew Robinson  
Department of Mathematics and Statistics            Tel: +61-3-8344-9763
University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia         Fax: +61-3-8344-4599
Email: a.robinson at ms.unimelb.edu.au         http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au