Building R-patched and R-devel fails

On 17.04.2016 11:01, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

On 17/04/2016 07:25, Berwin A Turlach wrote:

G'day all,

probably you have noticed this by now, but I thought I ought to report
it. :)

Already fixed for Unix by the time this reached me.  Since that version
of Survival has been put into 3.2 patched, that also needed its
Makefile.in updated.

I've left Windows changes to those with a Windows build system.

Done for R-devel and the 3.3 branch just in case something happens on other machines. At least on my machine the build happened in an appropriate order anyway.

Best,
Uwe

My scripts that update the SVN sources for R-patched and R-devel, run
`tools/rsync-recommended' (for both) and then install both these
versions from scratch failed this morning.  Apparently the new version
of the recommended package `survival' depends on the recommended
package `Matrix', but the makefile does not ensure that Matrix is build
before survival.  So my log files had entries:

  [...]
  ERROR: dependency ?Matrix? is not available for package ?survival?
  * removing ?/opt/src/R-devel-build/library/survival?
  Makefile:51: recipe for target 'survival.ts' failed
  make[2]: *** [survival.ts] Error 1
  make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  [...]

Presumably, in both branches, the files Makefile.in and Makefile.win in
src/library/Recommended have to be adapted to contain the following
line at the end among the "Hardcoded dependencies":

   survival.ts: Matrix.ts

Cheers,

   Berwin