You may find that Mandriva Discovery is missing gfortran which is necessary
for compiling R - having recently compiled it on a mandriva free edition.
You may need to add appropriate package repositories to the package
management system - http://easyurpmi.zarb.org is helpful for configuring
Mandriva repositories. There may be some other dependencies missing from the
Discovery distro which is the entry-level system, but these will all be in
the repositories.

Paul Bivand
Head of Analysis and Statistics
Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion
London

On 27/02/07, Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> On 2/27/07, Bricklemyer, Ross S <rsb@wsu.edu> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am a new user to Linux but I am familiar with R.  I have previously
> > used and installed R on a Windows platform without problems.  I recently
> > set up a dual boot system (XP_64, Mandriva) to run R on a Linux platform
> > in order to more efficiently handle large datasets.  I have not done
> > compiling before, but read the R instructions and followed to my best
> > ability.  I downloaded the most recent tar and unpacked it into
> > /usr/local/R_HOME.  I was able to run ./configure and added the
> > additional Linux packages necessary to compile.  The problem arises
> > using the 'make' command.  When I run make I get an error that there is
> > not a target or a makefile.  There is, however, Makefile.in in the
> > directory.  I think I am close to getting this installed, but I am
> > stuck.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I do not suppose that
> > any of the pre compiled Linux versions (i.e. Debian, SuSe) available on
> > CRAN mirrors would run on a Mandriva distro?
>
> You skipped a step.  Unpack then run configure then run make.
>
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