In what sense is this a bug in R?
The R-admin manual tells you R 2.2.0 has been successfully compiled on
several such systems. There is something amiss with your Solaris
setup, not generically with R. By guess is that you are out of file
space.
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 JHZhang at mdanderson.org wrote:
> Solaris 8
> Gnu Make 3.79.1
> R-2.2.0
>
> ./configure --prefix=/path/to/here
> is ok.
> make error messages,
>
> creating doc/html/resources.html
> *** Error code 255
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `../html/resources.html'
> Current working directory /home/zhangj/apps/R/R-patched/doc/manual
> cp: ../../bin: is a directory
> install: cp ../../bin ./BATCH/bin failed
> *** Error code 2
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-cmds'
> Current working directory /home/zhangj/apps/R/R-patched/src/scripts
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R'
> Current working directory /home/zhangj/apps/R/R-patched/src/scripts
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R'
> Current working directory /home/zhangj/apps/R/R-patched/src
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R'
>
> Jun H. Zhang
> Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics
> MD Anderson Cancer Center
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