[R-sig-DB] Unable to install ROracle on R 2.14.0

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please ask the maintainer (as the posting guide said).  This is about 
his configure script, not R nor DBMSs.

If I read it correctly your Linux is very old (RHEL are on 6.x now), 
and the configure script may need a more recent set of tools.

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Bowling, Brad wrote:

> I am having an issue compiling and installing ROracle.  My knowledge of
> R is very limited so I am looking for any advice on ways I can
> troubleshoot and/or solve this issue, i.e. logs, commands, patches, etc.
> My environment is as follows:
>
> Operating System - Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update
> 6)
> Linux atlqtfldplz01 2.6.9-78.0.1.ELhugemem #1 SMP Tue Jul 22 18:23:25
> EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
> Trying to install ROracle_0.5-12.tar.gz
>
> Oracle Client:  10.1.0.3.0 (32bit)
> ORACLE_HOME=/mass/oracle/product/10.1.0.3.0
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mass/oracle/product/10.1.0.3.0/lib
>
> Installed R libraries:
> # /mass/bin/R --slave -e 'cat(rownames(installed.packages()), "\n")'
> base bitops boot caTools chron class cluster codetools corpcor datasets
> DBI digest ellipse fAssets fBasics fCopulae fda fields foreign
> fPortfolio gdata getopt glpk gplots graphics grDevices grid gtools Hmisc
> KernSmooth lars lattice leaps limSolve lpSolve MASS Matrix methods mgcv
> mnormt nlme nnet optparse pls proto quadprog Rcpp Rglpk rjson
> R.methodsS3 robustbase R.oo ROracle roxygen rpart Runiversal slam sn
> spam spatial splines stats stats4 survival tcltk timeDate timeSeries
> tools tseries urca utils zoo
>
> When attempting to compile/install ROracle I receive the following:
>
> # /mass/R/R-2.14.0/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l /mass/R/R-2.14.0/lib/R/library
> ./ROracle_0.5-12.tar.gz
> * installing *source* package 'ROracle' ...
> ** package 'ROracle' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> ## You are not building with distcc and have been limited to -j2
> ## If you are on the build machine consider stopping and running
> ## envy distcc before restarting the build
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating src/Makevars
> sed: file ./confstatSv9983/subs-1.sed line 43: unterminated `s' command
> config.status: creating src/Makefile
> sed: file ./confstatSv9983/subs-1.sed line 43: unterminated `s' command
> ** libs
> ** arch -
> make: *** No targets.  Stop.
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'ROracle'
> * removing '/mass/R/R-2.14.0/lib/R/library/ROracle'
>
> Has anyone experienced this issue?  I haven't found much in the way of
> documentation out there.  Just install procedures, which I've checked
> and double checked.  Not really sure how to troubleshoot this further.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Brad
>
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