Problem configuring R-patched

Gavin Simpson wrote:

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:57 -0400, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote:

I downloaded R-patched (2005-08-04) from CRAN today.
I ran ./configure --enable-R-shlib

I received the error message:

checking for recommended packages... no
configure: error: Some of the recommended packages are missing
 Use --without-recommended-packages if this was intentional

        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So was this intentional?

No, it wasn't.

I built a previous version of R-patched successfully on my system
which is running the SuSE 9,2 Pro Linux distribution.  I untarred the
tar ball into the same directory I did my last build on in case that's
important.

The only other differences between this attempt and my successful build
are:

1. I did not use --enable-R-shlib last time.
2. I found and installed the blas libraries for this build.

Have I messed up or made an erroneous assumption along the way?

Yes and No. You obviously haven't compiled R recently. If you haven't
got the recommended packages in the source you are compiling, configure
now gives an error, which quite clearly states (and you've quoted it in
your email!) that it cannot find (some of) the recommended packages.

Actually, I compiled it about a week ago.  Here is my current version.

 > version

          _
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status   Patched
major    2
minor    1.1
year     2005
month    07
day      28
language R

When I compiled that version, I did my "tar xzf" to a clean directory
and did not receive that error.

A solution - again given by the error message you quote! - is:

./configure --enable-R-shlib --without-recommended-packages
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That should clear things up.

I realise that would clear it up.  I was puzzled why I got this message
in the first place, given I didn't get it last week.

Other wise you need to cd to the R directory (where you have the source
code), and then execute ./tools/rsync-recommended and then run your
configure command.

HTH

G

Thanks for the rsync tip.