[R-SIG-Mac] How to NOT remove build directory after building a package?

[Simon Urbanek]

Using fink is asking for a lot of trouble, but, anyway, use

R CMD INSTALL --no-clean-on-error

The other alternative is run INSTALL on the directory instead of the tar ball.

Cheers,
S



> On Sep 20, 2019, at 8:03 PM, Yoshihiko Baba via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have been trying to build a CRAN package from the source on Mac+Fink.  However, I got an error during the build process.  How can I tell R not to remove the temporary build directory?
> 
> 
> checking for gsl-config... /sw/opt/gsl25/bin/gsl-config
> checking if GSL version >= 2.1... checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in /private/tmp/RtmpqJYplW/Rbuildc37f217e13c4/gsl': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See config.log' for more details
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gsl'
> removing '/private/tmp/RtmpqJYplW/Rinstc37f5c43ba09/gsl'
> -----------------------------------
> ERROR: package installation failed
> 
> 
> I am using Fink because Fink can install multiple versions of libraries (gsl in this case).  However, to have multiple versions, GSL libraries are installed in non-standard direcotry (/sw/opt/gsl25).  By setting:
> $ export GSL_CONFIG=/sw/opt/gsl25/bin/gsl-config
> I have managed to tell the location of GSL, but gcc failed somehow.  But the config.log was deleted by R.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> —
> BABA Yoshihiko
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