Trouble compiling R-1.3.0 under Tru64

Kjetil Kjernsmo writes:

Dear all,

I have some difficulty getting R-1.3.0 to run on the alpha, with osf4.0e
(Tru64, or whatever they call it... :-) ).

configure reports the following configuration:
R is now configured for alphaev6-dec-osf4.0e

  Source directory:          .
  Installation directory:    /astro/local
  C compiler:                gcc  -mieee -g -O2
  C++ compiler:              c++  -g -O2
  FORTRAN compiler:          f77  -fpe3 -g

  X11 support:               yes
  Gnome support:             no
  Tcl/Tk support:            no

  R profiling support:       yes
  R as a shared library:     no

configure: warning: you cannot build info versions of the R manuals

The compilation seems to run smoothly for a while, but stops with when
building ctest:
Make: Cannot open ../../../../share/make/../../../../etc/Makeconf.  Stop.
It seems to be looking in the wrong place. I'm allready on thin ice, but I
tried to set R_HOME to the source directory, which is
/mn/alnair/u1/kjetikj/src/R-1.3.0/ It didn't work, but then I edited
share/make/shlib.mk to say
include /mn/alnair/u1/kjetikj/src/R-1.3.0/etc/Makeconf
and that seemed to work, the make was completed. I guess I might have done
something entirely wrong here, though, that may be the cause of the
subsequent crash.