Message-ID: <15191.4098.719997.599403@mithrandir.hornik.net>
Date: 2001-07-19T16:51:14Z
From: Kurt Hornik
Subject: Compiling R-1.3.0-patched on OSF1
In-Reply-To: <x24rs9jiei.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
>>>>> Peter Dalgaard BSA writes:
> Laurent Gautier <laurent at cbs.dtu.dk> writes:
>> ...but the 'make' step ends with the following lines:
>>
>>
>> ----------------------
>> building package `base'
>> mkdir ../../../library/base
>> mkdir ../../../library/base/R
>> mkdir ../../../library/base/data
>> mkdir ../../../library/base/demo
>> building package `ctest'
>> mkdir ../../../library/ctest
>> mkdir ../../../library/ctest/R
>> Make: Cannot open ../../../../share/make/../../../../etc/Makeconf.
> ....
>> Did anybody encountered this (and would know how to overcome it) ?
>> (I am certainly doing silly somewhere.... but WHERE ?)
Nothing silly on your side at all.
> The symptoms look familiar. I think we've seen this before and a fix
> was to use GNU make instead of the system-supplied one. (The recursive
> Makefiles may make it necessary to set $MAKE i.e.
> MAKE=gmake gmake
> on Bourne shell systems and whatever it takes to get the same effect
> in csh).
> My memory feels a little rusty on this, you may want to look back into
> the mailing list archives.
I think this is because the system make thinks it needs to set the
working directory. This only seems to occur with that specific version
of make, as far as I know ...
[There is really no recursion ...]
-k
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