Help: Error when installing R 2.8.1 in IBM AIX system from source code

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your quick response. Let me describe more about my situation.

1. Patch file - Yes, I found patch didn't change any file, so I manually
changed 4 files(R-2.8.1/configure, R-2.8.1/configure.ac,
R-2.8.1/Makeconf.in, R-2.8.1/src/main/Makefile.in) by reading the patch
file.

2. why I use old version R 2.8.1 - We want to use SPSS Statistics to call R
in our server and have to install "Statistics essentials for R" after R is
installed successfully. In Statistics 20 document, it only supports R 2.8.1
and provide that install guidance.

3. I don't know how to disable HTML format in my mail client. Sorry for
that. I rewrite colorful part again here as 3.1 and 3.2 :

3.1 Issue1: during "configure" step, I faced this error:"./configure
[20510]: "${}": bad substitution".
And I took action to solve it, the action is :add
"shlibpath_var=LD_LIBRARY_PATH" before line 20510 of configure file.

3.2 Issue2: during "make" step, I faced the below error but I don't know
how to fix it:

../../../bin/R[206]: "${}": bad substitution
make: The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.

4. Since you said it's not a standard patch, do you have a standard patch
for R 2.8.1 installation in AIX 7.1 64bit system?

Best regards,

Dexin Luan (??????)

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