[R] Build error on RedHat EL 5.5: byte-compiling package 'compiler'

[Paul Johnson]

Greetings R-help!

In case anybody has worked on an old Redhat system lately, can you
remember what is the cause of this problem?  I don't think this is a
fatal problem, because I can get around it by uninstalling all of the
R RPM packages and re-running the build. But if R is installed, the
build fails while byte-compiling as seen below.  A *guessed* removing
the installed R stuff might make a difference, and it did!

The build directory is /tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/ but the compile process
jumps out and tries to grab files in /usr/lib64...


make[6]: Entering directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/tools/src'
make[6]: `Makedeps' is up to date.
make[6]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/tools/src'
make[6]: Entering directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/tools/src'
mkdir -p -- ../../../../library/tools/libs
make[6]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/tools/src'
make[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/tools/src'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/tools'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/tools'
make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/compiler'
building package 'compiler'
mkdir -p -- ../../../library/compiler
make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/compiler'
mkdir -p -- ../../../library/compiler/R
mkdir -p -- ../../../library/compiler/po
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/compiler'
make[4]: Entering directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/compiler'
byte-compiling package 'compiler'
Warning in file(datafile, "wb") :
  cannot open file '/usr/lib64/R/library/compiler/R/compiler.rdb':
Permission denied
Error in file(datafile, "wb") : cannot open the connection
Calls: <Anonymous> -> code2LazyLoadDB -> makeLazyLoadDB -> close -> file
Execution halted
make[4]: *** [../../../library/compiler/R/compiler.rdb] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/compiler'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library/compiler'
make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src/library'
make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/BUILD/R-2.15.0/src'
make: *** [R] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.5874 (%build)


The command line that initiates the RPM build is

rpmbuild -ba R-2.15-pj.spec --define "dist=kurocks" > Rbuild.txt 2>&1 &

and I uploaded the full script of the build process here:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/R/Rbuild.txt

I searched the archive and find a 2006 mention of the same problem,
and the solution was that the user had R_LIBS defined in the
environment.  I don't have anything like that in the output of "env",
but obviously, I'm getting something that confuses the build from the
R envionment.  I am just a little curious if somebody can explain
what's going wrong.

pj
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Paul E. Johnson
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1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504     Center for Research Methods
University of Kansas               University of Kansas
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