Matrix package: compilation error

Thank you Hin-Tak Leung,

on Saturday, 31th, Brian Ripley and Martin Maechler showed me the use of 
gmake without linking make against gmake:

  setenv MAKE gmake
  R CMD INSTALL Matrix_0.9975-11.tar.gz
  unsetenv MAKE
  R CMD INSTALL spdep_0.4-2.tar.gz

Everything works fine now. However, on my wishlist is a general way to 
integrate "the search for gmake on systems like FreeBSD" in the 
configure script of packages like Matrix ... ;-)

Hin-Tak Leung schrieb:

Rainer Hurling wrote:

Thanks, Brian and Martin,

I think you are both right, Matrix tries to use BSD make 
(/usr/bin/make) on FreeBSD instead of GNU make (/usr/local/bin/gmake).

Sorry, but I don't know how to persuade the configure script to use 
gmake :-(

easy -

mkdir ~/mynewbin
ln -s /usr/local/bin/gmake ~/mynewbin/make
export PATH=${HOME}/mynewbin:${PATH}

Then run "R CMD INSTALL ..." as you did.

and afterwards, "rm -rf ~/mynewbin". (I hope I don't need to explain
what the 3 lines above do...)

HTL

Rainer


Prof Brian Ripley schrieb:

This is because of the GNUism in Matrix/src/Makefile

## get rid of this, once we have 'Depends: R (>= 2.5.0)':
ifeq (, $(findstring -lRlapack, $(LAPACK_LIBS)))
SOURCES_LAPACK =
else
SOURCES_LAPACK = zpotf2.f zpotrf.f zlacgv.f
endif

I guess you know what you need to do to fix it for BSD make?

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Rainer Hurling wrote:

Trying to compile the package Matrix_0.9975-11.tar.gz with newest
R-2.5.0 alpha (2007-03-31 r40986) on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (i386) I get
the following error:

-----
R CMD INSTALL Matrix_0.9975-11.tar.gz
* Installing to library '/usr/local/lib/R/library'
* Installing *source* package 'Matrix' ...
** libs
** arch -
"Makefile", line 10: Missing dependency operator
"Makefile", line 12: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 14: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Matrix'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/Matrix'
-----


Under FreeBSD I have installed the LAPACK package (3.0.2) with library
at location

/usr/local/lib/liblapack.so.4

Is it possible that the Makefile of package Matrix fails because of 
that?

Not used unless you asked for it during R's configure.