I have R v2.0.1 already running on the machine in question; a fairly
generic Fedora Core 3 machine. I am trying to build the new version
2.1.0 and have not been able to troubleshoot the problem I encountered.
I'm hoping someone else has seen it and can suggest a troubleshooting
avenue to me.
The build succeeds, both from the source RPM and from the tarball. I
believed I had all the build prerequisites, based on reading the install
instructions in the tarball and the R.spec file. The make check step
fails almost immediately with:
[billb at tioga R-2.1.0]$ make check
...
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/billb/tmp/R-2.1.0/tests/Examples'
running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/billb/tmp/R-2.1.0/tests/Examples'
make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2
...
The output file:
[billb at tioga R-2.1.0]$ tail -5 tests/Examples/base-Ex.Rout.fail
assign("ptime", proc.time(), env = .CheckExEnv)
grDevices::postscript("base-Examples.ps")
Error in .Internal(PS(file, old$paper, old$family, old$encoding, old
$bg, :
no internal function "PS"
Execution halted
If I run the executable I built, and make a call to the postscript()
function, I get the same error.