[R] Problem Compiling v-4.x.x

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 08/11/2021 3:56 p.m., Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/08/2021 03:15 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 08/11/2021 2:57 p.m., Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>>> I have uptodate Debian Buster on my Linux platform and have been
>>> compiling R distros for quite some time, usually with success.
>>>
>>> This time I have encountered the same error in my attempts to compile
>>> v-4..1.2 and then, when that failed, I had the same error with v-4.1.0.
>>>
>>> The error in both cases was:
>>>
>>> /home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10:
>>> Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or directory.
>>>
>>> I don't have the faintest idea as to what is going on, and, even worse,
>>> I don't know how to fix it.
>>>
>>> Help will be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> I think you'll need to describe what you did that led to this error.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
> True, very true. Sorroy for the omission.
> 
> ./configure
> /make
> 

Hopefully Ivan's suggestion solves your problem. One thing I'd suggest: 
building in a different dir than the source.  All you need is to put the 
source in some dir (e.g. "src"), switch to an empty dir, and run 
src/configure from there, followed by make.  This makes for a cleaner 
separation of source and products.

Duncan Murdoch