unable to compile Recommended packages

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Did you run

$RHOME/src/tools/rsync-recommended

to obtain the most recent versions of the recommended packages before
trying to compile them?
Hi folks, ?I'm having a problem with installing ?R on Solaris. ?Has anyone seen a similar issue? ?I don't find any hits on the search engines. ?Thanks.

Environment:
SunOS xxxx 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R

During the installation/compilation of R-2.10.1 I ?get the following error:

begin installing recommended package boot
ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz'
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
MAKE="make" R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL --no-lock -l "../../../library" boot.tgz > boot.ts.out 2>&1 || (cat boot.ts.out && exit 1)
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `boot.ts'
Current working directory /home/ireview/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
make stamp-recommended
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `recommended-packages'
Current working directory /home/ireview/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
(cd src/library/Recommended && make)
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `stamp-recommended'

-Alex

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Thank you for your responses.  It turns out the problem was my version of 'tar' on solaris.  I downloaded the latest Gnu tar and the install completed successfully.  Who would of know ;)

Thanks again,
Alex

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From: dmbates at gmail.com [mailto:dmbates at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Bates
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 1:48 PM
To: Alex Bryant
Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] unable to compile Recommended packages

Did you run

$RHOME/src/tools/rsync-recommended

to obtain the most recent versions of the recommended packages before
trying to compile them?
Hi folks, ?I'm having a problem with installing ?R on Solaris. ?Has anyone seen a similar issue? ?I don't find any hits on the search engines. ?Thanks.

Environment:
SunOS xxxx 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R

During the installation/compilation of R-2.10.1 I ?get the following error:

begin installing recommended package boot
ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz'
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
MAKE="make" R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL --no-lock -l "../../../library" boot.tgz > boot.ts.out 2>&1 || (cat boot.ts.out && exit 1)
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `boot.ts'
Current working directory /home/ireview/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
make stamp-recommended
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `recommended-packages'
Current working directory /home/ireview/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
(cd src/library/Recommended && make)
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `stamp-recommended'

-Alex

//************************
// Alex Bryant
// Software Developer
// Integrated Clinical Systems, Inc.
// 908-996-7208

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Thank you for your responses.  It turns out the problem was my version of 'tar' on solaris.  I downloaded the latest Gnu tar and the install completed successfully.  Who would of know ;)
...
SunOS xxxx 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
Just a little note: You should add /usr/sfw/bin to your PATH env var
or ask your Sysadmin to install SUNWgtar:
Solaris 10 (even the 3 years aka pretty old version u3 you are using) 
already comes with a lot of GNU stuff ...

On none-GNU OSs GNU tools usually pick up GNU tools before the OS tools,
when they find them ...

Regards,
jel.
Otto-von-Guericke University     http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/
Department of Computer Science   Geb. 29 R 027, Universitaetsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg, Germany         Tel: +49 391 67 12768