From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Thu Dec  3 21:35:51 1998
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 13:35:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: gmake
In-Reply-To: <98Dec3.135145est.13487@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9812031331520.25808-100000@wompom.biostat.washington.edu>

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> GNU make does not work for some of my other work so for compiling R I am trying
> to use "gmake" which is a link to the correct version of gnu make. I'm not sure
> if this should work but it looks like it is suppose to, as $(MAKE) gets expanded
> to "gmake" most places. However, "make" gets used in
> 
> R-pre0.63.1/src/library/modreg/src
> 
> and fails. Is this a bug or should I not expect this to work? I'm trying to
> compile an intermediate release.

It is a bug, and you should expect it not to work. :)

The problem is that libraries are installed by R INSTALL, not by recursive
make. Using gmake at the top level means that it is used recursively in
all the subdirectories, but in order to change the behaviour of R INSTALL
you need to tell _configure_ to use gmake.


Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle	


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gmake
Thomas Lumley