Installing R-2.2.0 package

From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:21 PM
To: Dean, David P
Cc: Uwe Ligges; r-devel at r-project.org; Paul Gilbert
Subject: Re: [Rd] Installing R-2.2.0 package

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Dean, David P wrote:

From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:42 AM
To: Uwe Ligges
Cc: Paul Gilbert; r-devel at r-project.org; Dean, David P
Subject: Re: [Rd] Installing R-2.2.0 package

It works on Solaris 8 for me, and this is checked as part of the
alpha/beta process.

The code is the same on Linux and Solaris, after all, so this would

have

to be a Solaris shell bug.

I'm on Solaris 8 as well. R is compiled for 64-bits, but I wouldn't

expect

that to be a factor.

I tested this on a 64-bit setup, as it happens.

R was built and is run in an environment created with
OpenPKG and containing GNU equivalents to many utilities -- so it's not

a

stock Solaris setup.

I hope /bin/sh is Solaris and not bash.

I'm not familiar with R internals but will be happy to try to debug if I
can. Does the installer call out to the shell somehow? Where would I

start

to look for the relevant code?

INSTALL _is_ a shell script.

Rather than mess about with past code, can you first please try the
current R-patched (see the FAQ) as I will shortly not have R-2.2.0 on
Solaris but rather R-patched (I already have R-devel in 4 flavours).

Thanks!
David Dean

OK, I'll try the current patched. I did locate the INSTALL script and added
a -x flag to see what is going on. (This is in the stock 2.2.0):

+ do_exit_on_error
remove_R_package_dir=yes
+ test -z
/net/gsun374/app/openpkg/lib/R-2.2.0-64bit/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: test: argument
expected

I think this line in do_exit_on_error causes an abend if bundlepkg isn't
set:

If test -z ${bundlepkg}; do