This is a reproducible bug that I reported earlier. The work-around is to remove the link foreign.tgz so that the build does not attempt to create the foreign library. However, there is actually nothing wrong with the foreign source so the problem must be somewhere in the configure process. After make install, then use the original source as follows and everything should work: R CMD INSTALL foreign_0.6-6.tar.gz Rodney Sparapani Medical College of Wisconsin Sr. Biostatistician Patient Care & Outcomes Research rsparapa@mcw.edu http://www.mcw.edu/pcor Was 'Name That Tune' rigged? WWLD -- What Would Lombardi Do
(PR#6815): build fails for foreign with Sun Forte
2 messages · rsparapa at mcw.edu, Brian Ripley
There is nothing here to reproduce, as *we* said earlier! We need the exact details (OS, compilers, R version, make version, environmental variables, configure command line etc) just to document the problem. You have not mentioned what goes wrong nor given any error messages. To repeat, R 1.9.0 *does* build on Sun Solaris 8 and 9 using the Sun Forte 7 aka Pro One compilers. The problem is something about your setup, and in particular is the separate installation works it looks like a bug in either your make or your shell -- so exactly which versions are they?
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 rsparapa@post.its.mcw.edu wrote:
This is a reproducible bug that I reported earlier. The work-around is to remove the link foreign.tgz so that the build does not attempt to create the foreign library. However, there is actually nothing wrong with the foreign source so the problem must be somewhere in the configure process. After make install, then use the original source as follows and everything should work: R CMD INSTALL foreign_0.6-6.tar.gz
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