[R-sig-Fedora] Missing make dependency in R-devel

[Tom Callaway]

On 08/08/2014 11:10 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> It seems that "make" is not declared as a dependency of R-core/R-devel
> in fedora/rhel. Therefore one some servers R CMD config does not work:
> 
> R CMD config --ldflags
> /usr/lib64/R/bin/config: line 150: make: command not found
> /usr/lib64/R/bin/config: line 151: make: command not found
> /usr/lib64/R/bin/config: line 152: make: command not found
> /usr/lib64/R/bin/config: line 153: make: command not found
> R was not built as a library
> 
> Especially the last line is misleading. This leads to unexpected,
> hard-to-debug behavior in configure scripts, etc.
> 
> Would it make sense to add 'make' as a dependency to R-core or
> R-devel? I asked Tom Callaway but he has not responded; I am not sure
> if he is still actively maintaining these rpm packages.

I am, and I just committed the fix to add Requires: make to the R-core
packages. Sorry for the delay in responding, I've been traveling.

~tom

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