0.63 missing .pl files in etc?

Peter Dalgaard BSA writes:

U-E59264-Osman F Buyukisik <absd00t@c1186.ae.ge.com> writes:

Sorry Peter, I don't know how I did it but somehow I managed to have
directory with missing pearl files :-( Subsequent deletion/expansion
confirmed that they are there! But "make" still fails with the 
/bin/sh: /home/absd00t/R-0.63/bin/build-help: Execute permission denied.
/bin/sh: /home/absd00t/R-0.63/bin/build-help: Execute permission denied.
/bin/sh: /home/absd00t/R-0.63/bin/build-help: Execute permission denied.
/bin/sh: /home/absd00t/R-0.63/bin/build-help: Execute permission denied.
/bin/sh: /home/absd00t/R-0.63/bin/build-help: Execute permission denied.

Hmmm. The INSTALL program is responsible for setting the modes. Are
you using an old config.cache? otherwise configure is probably getting
it wrong. Solaris has this stuff in Makeconf:

INSTALL = $(top_srcdir)/aux/install-sh -c
INSTALL_DATA = ${INSTALL} -m 644
INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL}
INSTALL_DIR = ${INSTALL} -d

if you have something else, you might want to try enforcing the above.

That "make" continues past errors and still creates stamp-xxx is an
annoying, but well-known misfeature. Partly my fault for telling Kurt
to leave it alone in the period up to the release (but otherwise
things might have gone *really* wrong!).

I'll cc this to r-devel, in case there's another HP-UXer out there
who's been trying this. In particular, I have absolutely no bearing on
your .so/.sl problem below (unless that's also caused by INSTALL..).

But more problems: 

R : Copyright 1998, The R Development Core Team
Version 0.63.0  (November 14, 1998)

...

library()

Packages in library `/home/absd00t/local/share/R/library':

base            The R base package
eda             Exploratory Data Analysis
modreg          Modern regression: smoothing and local methods
mva             Classical Multivariate Analysis
stepfun         Step Functions, including Empirical Distributions

library(eda)

Error: dynamic library `eda' not found

At the end of the R file "eda" is a line:

library.dynam("eda.so")

But hpux creates .sl files! So I have to edit the R files eda,
mva. modreg has a different line :
.First.lib <- function(lib, pkg) library.dynam("modreg", pkg, lib)

library(modreg)
Error: dynamic library `modreg' not found