From roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu  Sat Apr  8 17:24:14 2006
From: roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu (roger koenker)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 10:24:14 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Fwd: makeconf issue on R-devel 2006-03-12 r37524
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For what it is worth, I've just installed R-alpha Version 2.3.0 alpha  
(2006-04-07 r37668)
on my G5 and encountered the same problem reported below.  The same  
treatment
got  things going again.  If this reflects some idiosyncrasy in my  
setup,  my apologies....


url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger                Roger Koenker
email   rkoenker at uiuc.edu                       Department of Economics
vox:    217-333-4558                            University of Illinois
fax:    217-244-6678                            Champaign, IL 61820


On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, roger koenker wrote:
>
>> I sent the message below to r-sig-mac yesterday, but having no reply
>> I decided to explore a bit myself and found that editing:
>>
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/share/make/
>> shlib.mk
>>
>> yzzy: diff shlib.mk shlib.mk~
>> 3c3
>> < include $(R_HOME)/etc/Makeconf
>> ---
>> > include $(R_HOME)/etc${R_ARCH}/Makeconf
>>
>> restored the functionality of R CMD INSTALL.
>>
>> Is this a known issue?
>
> No, and the change will break things which currently work correctly.
>
> Looks like this is something specific to how Macs install under the  
> bin/exec directory.  It likely stems from the following line in  
> INSTALL.
>
>      archs=`(cd ${R_HOME}/bin/exec; ls)`
>
> which on other systems will only contain directories for sub- 
> architectures or the R or Rgnome executables, since it says
>
>>> ** arch - Frameworks
>
>
>>
>> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
>> email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
>> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
>> fax:       217-244-6678                Champaign, IL 61820
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: roger koenker <rkoenker at uiuc.edu>
>>> Date: March 13, 2006 4:46:30 PM CST
>>> To: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> Subject: makeconf issue on R-devel 2006-03-12 r37524
>>>
>>> I've just installed R-devel   Version 2.3.0 Under development
>>> (unstable) (2006-03-12 r37524)
>>> on a G5 and things went smoothly despite my gfortran configuration,
>>> (that is ./configure, make,
>>> make install was fine), but now trying to install  a source package
>>> I get:
>>>
>>> yzzy: R CMD check kuantile
>>> * checking for working latex ... OK
>>> * using log directory '/Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/ 
>>> kuantile.Rcheck'
>>> * using Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-03-12  
>>> r37524)
>>> * checking for file 'kuantile/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
>>> * this is package 'kuantile' version '1.00'
>>> * checking package dependencies ... OK
>>> * checking if this is a source package ... WARNING
>>> Subdirectory 'kuantile/src' contains object files.
>>> * checking whether package 'kuantile' can be installed ... ERROR
>>> Installation failed.
>>> See '/Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/kuantile.Rcheck/00install.out'
>>> for details.
>>>
>>> yzzy: more /Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/kuantile.Rcheck/
>>> 00install.out
>>> * Installing *source* package 'kuantile' ...
>>> ** libs
>>> ** arch - Frameworks
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/make/shlib.mk:3: /
>>> Library/Frameworks/R.fra
>>> mework/Resources/etc/Frameworks/Makeconf: No such file or directory
>>> make: *** No rule to make target `/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/
>>> Resources/etc/Frameworks
>>> /Makeconf'.  Stop.
>>> chmod: /Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/kuantile.Rcheck/kuantile/libs/
>>> Frameworks/*: No such
>>> file or directory
>>> gfortran   -fPIC -fno-common  -g -O2 -c dsel05.f -o dsel05.o
>>> gfortran   -fPIC -fno-common  -g -O2 -c kuantile.f -o kuantile.o
>>> gcc -flat_namespace -bundle -undefined suppress -L/sw/lib -L/usr/
>>> local/lib -o kuantile.so
>>> dsel05.o kuantile.o  -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-
>>> darwin8/4.0.0 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc
>>> -lgfortran -lgcc_s -lSystemStubs -lmx -lSystem -F/Library/
>>> Frameworks/R.framework/.. -fram
>>> ework R
>>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'kuantile'
>>> ** Removing '/Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/kuantile.Rcheck/ 
>>> kuantile'
>>>
>>> isn't there something fishy with the specification of the Makeconf
>>> file in ..../etc/Frameworks???
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>>
>>> url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
>>> email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
>>> vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
>>> fax:       217-244-6678                Champaign, IL 61820
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
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[Rd] Fwd: makeconf issue on R-devel 2006-03-12 r37524
roger koenker