still working on building R from source

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Hi Everyone: Gavin's been so generous and patient that I figured I'd give
him a break and send this snag to the list. When I do get this working, I
will send  an "How to build R from the tarball " instructions message to
this list for posterity's sake ( and myself and anyone else who doesn't
know how to build R from the tarball ).
I would question whether configure or make really did complete
correctly. Something went wrong if checking the compiled app failed.

You haven't shown us the conclusion of the configure step - it prints
out a list of capabilities and compilation options etc. Can you show
that. Also, can you show the configure arguments - i.e. how you called
configure?

Finally, can you show the last 10 or so lines of the output from make?

If you configured R as per my emails, you shouldn't need to go anywhere
near the root filesystem. I don't bother installing R I just run it from
the build DIR, which is in my ~/

I also build from svn which I find easier to maintain as I only need a

svn update path/to/sources

to get the latest patches.

You could also try again with a

make distclean

or

make clean

(I forget which is really required here) before you re-run configure,
just to make sure it has picked up the correct/new information.

HTH

G
So, here's my latest snag:  Gavin got me through the configure and the
make. So, then I did make check and I get below. But, since that error
didn't seem that serious, I figured I'd see whether R would run anyway. The
output of the R command is below what's below. It's expecting a file in
/usr/lib/R I think ? But maybe the fact that the tests don't complete
successfully causes that. I looked to see if I have an ENVIRONMENT variable
for R in my
.bashrc but it doesn't have one. Thanks for all the help. From past
experiences, I knew it was going to be a long road and it has been but I'm
getting close.

Mark

END OF make check OUTPUT
#=========================================================================================================
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/markleeds/R/2.14/build/tests'
running regression tests ...
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/markleeds/R/2.14/build/tests'
running code in '../../tests/reg-tests-1a.R' ... OK
running code in '../../tests/reg-tests-1b.R' ... OK
running code in '../../tests/reg-tests-2.R' ... OK
  comparing 'reg-tests-2.Rout' to '../../tests/reg-tests-2.Rout.save' ... OK
running code in '../../tests/reg-examples1.R' ... OK
running code in '../../tests/reg-examples2.R' ... OK
running code in '../../tests/reg-packages.R' ...make[3]: ***
[reg-packages.Rout] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/markleeds/R/2.14/build/tests'
make[2]: *** [test-Reg] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/markleeds/R/2.14/build/tests'
make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/markleeds/R/2.14/build/tests'
make: *** [check] Error 2

# THEN TRY TO RUN R
#==================================================================================================

:~/R/2.14/build> R
/usr/bin/R: line 229: /usr/lib/R/etc/ldpaths: No such file or directory
:~/R/2.14/build> ^C
:~/R/2.14/build>

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