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

[Stephen P. Molnar]

On 11/09/2021 04:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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
>
That was certainly a red-faced forehead slapper!!

I should have known better. I changed the name of ~/Downloads/R Packages 
to ~/Downloads/R_Packages and the problem went away.

Many thanks to you all for your patience and solutions.

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