Problem Compiling v-4.x.x

/home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10:
Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or directory

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I have uptodate Debian Buster on my Linux platform and have been
compiling R distros for quite some time, usually with success.

This time I have encountered the same error in my attempts to compile
v-4..1.2 and then, when that failed, I had the same error with v-4.1.0.

The error in both cases was:

/home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10:
Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or directory.

I don't have the faintest idea as to what is going on, and, even worse,
I don't know how to fix it.

Help will be greatly appreciated.

On 08/11/2021 2:57 p.m., Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I have uptodate Debian Buster on my Linux platform and have been
compiling R distros for quite some time, usually with success.

This time I have encountered the same error in my attempts to compile
v-4..1.2 and then, when that failed, I had the same error with v-4.1.0.

The error in both cases was:

/home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10:
Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or directory.

I don't have the faintest idea as to what is going on, and, even worse,
I don't know how to fix it.

Help will be greatly appreciated.

I think you'll need to describe what you did that led to this error.

Duncan Murdoch

On 11/08/2021 03:15 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 08/11/2021 2:57 p.m., Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I have uptodate Debian Buster on my Linux platform and have been
compiling R distros for quite some time, usually with success.

This time I have encountered the same error in my attempts to compile
v-4..1.2 and then, when that failed, I had the same error with v-4.1.0.

The error in both cases was:

/home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10:
Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or directory.

I don't have the faintest idea as to what is going on, and, even worse,
I don't know how to fix it.

Help will be greatly appreciated.

I think you'll need to describe what you did that led to this error.

Duncan Murdoch

True, very true. Sorroy for the omission.

./configure
/make

On 08/11/2021 3:56 p.m., Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

On 11/08/2021 03:15 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On 08/11/2021 2:57 p.m., Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I have uptodate Debian Buster on my Linux platform and have been
compiling R distros for quite some time, usually with success.

This time I have encountered the same error in my attempts to compile
v-4..1.2 and then, when that failed, I had the same error with 
v-4.1.0.

The error in both cases was:

/home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10:
Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or 
directory.

I don't have the faintest idea as to what is going on, and, even 
worse,
I don't know how to fix it.

Help will be greatly appreciated.

I think you'll need to describe what you did that led to this error.

Duncan Murdoch

True, very true. Sorroy for the omission.

./configure
/make

Hopefully Ivan's suggestion solves your problem. One thing I'd 
suggest: building in a different dir than the source.  All you need is 
to put the source in some dir (e.g. "src"), switch to an empty dir, 
and run src/configure from there, followed by make. This makes for a 
cleaner separation of source and products.

Duncan Murdoch