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Problem building methods package?

2 messages · Byron Ellis, Brian Ripley

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For the last, I dunno, week or so I've been unable to build R... I 
finally took the time to investigate and the crash is in building 
'methods':

all.R is unchanged
../../../library/methods/man/methods.Rd is unchanged
make[2]: `Makedeps' is up to date.
../../../../library/methods/libs/methods.so is unchanged
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Rfiles'.

Any clues to where this came from? Regenerating the Makefiles didn't 
seem to help. OS X, 10.2.6, gcc3.3 rsync about 6 hours old. Should I 
just nuke the whole build tree and rsync everything again?


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Byron Ellis (bellis@hsph.harvard.edu)
"Oook" - The Librarian
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methods changed to use a NAMESPACE about last weekend.  It does build now 
(there were several days with problems), but you will need to rebuild it 
from scratch.  Either do make distclean; ./configure ...  or at least
remove library/methods and src/library/methods/all.R and remake.

(And since I have been in Milan working with Stefano, I know it now builds 
on MacOS X too.)
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Byron Ellis wrote:

            
No `crash' shown!
If you build in a separate tree the last step is never needed.