From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Feb  8 15:34:54 2006
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:34:54 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] R 2.2.1 installation trouble on SGI/Sun (PR#8575)
In-Reply-To: <200602081255.k18CtZvD021523@kruuna.helsinki.fi>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0602081433590.10930-100000@toucan.stats>

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Atro Tossavainen wrote:

> Dear Prof Ripley,
>
> > Thank you for the reply.  Setting these variables explicitly on the make
> > install line should help.
>
> I just fixed them in Makeconf explicitly and it's OK now.
>
> > I have a guess at the shell problem.  Configure contains
> >
> > if test -z ${rdocdir}; then
> >   rdocdir='${rhome}/doc'
> > fi
> >
> > and maybe test -z is broken.  Does it help to add quotes as in
> >
> > if test -z "${rdocdir}"; then
>
> Yes, that's the trick.

We'll alter the script in that case.  Thanks for testing the fix.

>
> --
> Atro Tossavainen (Mr.)               / The Institute of Biotechnology at
> Systems Analyst, Techno-Amish &     / the University of Helsinki, Finland,
> +358-9-19158939  UNIX Dinosaur     / employs me, but my opinions are my own.
> < URL : http : / / www . helsinki . fi / %7E atossava / > NO FILE ATTACHMENTS
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595



[Rd] R 2.2.1 installation trouble on SGI/Sun (PR#8575)
Prof Brian Ripley