[R-SIG-Mac] Oops --- still have problems building R from source.

[Simon Urbanek]

On May 25, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:

> 
> On 25/05/2010, at 4:39 PM, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> 
> 	<SNIP>
> 
>>>>> Anyone have any ideas as to what I need to do to o'erleap *this* hurdle?
>>>> 
>>>> You still seem to have /sw/include and /sw/lib active.
>>>> 
>>>> On my Snow Leopard 10.6.3 libSM.dylib is in /usr/X11/lib.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Not ``still'' actually; ``again''.  I found that when I had /sw moved
>>> aside there were a couple or three utilities (dos2unix; aspell) that I
>>> like to use, that were gone.
>>> 
>>> So I reinstalled fink, thinking that it was a ***broken*** fink that was
>>> causing problems, so if I reinstalled it, it wouldn't be broken any more
>>> and all would be well.
>>> 
>>> And things went well up to this point ....
>>> 
>>> Is there any way that I can keep /sw around and tell ``make'' not to use it?
>>> Or something like that.  (Please be monosyllabic!!! :-) )
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> mv /sw /sw.notused
>> 
>> and edit your Bash .profile to NOT source the init script of Fink (If I remember correctly).
>> Because that's how the Fink include and lib paths are activated and how Fink modifies your PATH. (I think).
> 
> 
> Tried that.  And I get
> 
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/sw/include/iconv.h', needed by `sysutils.o'.  Stop.
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make: *** [R] Error 1
> 
> So somehow it is still looking for /sw even though I moved /sw aside and took the call to
> the init script out (of my .cshrc, actually).
> 
> Any other ideas?  Sorry for all the bother.
> 

Are sure you cleaned up your build (i.e. removed the whole build directory) before configuring?

Cheers,
Simon


> 
> P. S. Moreover, having moved /sw to /sw.local, I cannot get, e.g., aspell to work
> even though I put /sw.local explicitly into my path.  Aaarrrggghhhh!!!
> 
> 		R. T.
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