R devel - Feb 2006 - R 2.2.1 installation trouble on SGI/Sun (PR#8575)

Hi,

I'm upgrading to R 2.2.1 and have bumped into some problems.

I have been successful with installing on x86 and PPC Linux, but am
unable to install R on Solaris 7 and on IRIX 6.5.  Configuration
and compilation go through just fine, but "make install" fails:

gmake[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/atossava/R-2.2.1/doc'
installing doc ...
../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
gmake[1]: *** [install-sources] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/atossava/R-2.2.1/doc'
gmake: *** [install] Error 1

Running "gmake -n install" reveals this is because:

echo "installing doc ..."
/bin/ksh ../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs ""
/bin/ksh ../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs
/afs/bi/v/sun4x_57/apps/stats/R/2.2.1/man/man1
for f in CRAN_mirrors.csv KEYWORDS KEYWORDS.db; do \
  ../tools/install-sh -c -m 644 ./${f} ""; \
done

Any ideas what might be causing "" to appear as the destination
directory?

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Please do not send questions to R-bugs (especially as well as to R-devel).

The thing you are getting as "" is from (see doc/Makefile)
           $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/$${f} "$(rdocdir)"; \

What is rdocdir set to in Makeconf?  It (and related quantities) should be

rhome = ${libdir}/R
rsharedir = ${rhome}/share
rincludedir = ${rhome}/include
rdocdir = ${rhome}/doc

unless you set something non-standard during configure.  (If you did not, 
the code is very simple and anything else here would seem to indicate a 
bug in the shell used, but please debug it.)

Solaris 7 is very old: this does work on Solaris 8 (from where I copied 
the above).  You can always specify it on the make install line (as 
described in the R-admin manual you were pointed to).


On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 Atro.Tossavainen at helsinki.fi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm upgrading to R 2.2.1 and have bumped into some problems.
>
> I have been successful with installing on x86 and PPC Linux, but am
> unable to install R on Solaris 7 and on IRIX 6.5.  Configuration
> and compilation go through just fine, but "make install" fails:
>
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/atossava/R-2.2.1/doc'
> installing doc ...
> ../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
> ../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
> ../tools/install-sh: no destination specified.
> gmake[1]: *** [install-sources] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/atossava/R-2.2.1/doc'
> gmake: *** [install] Error 1
>
> Running "gmake -n install" reveals this is because:
>
> echo "installing doc ..."
> /bin/ksh ../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs ""
> /bin/ksh ../src/scripts/mkinstalldirs
/afs/bi/v/sun4x_57/apps/stats/R/2.2.1/man/man1
> for f in CRAN_mirrors.csv KEYWORDS KEYWORDS.db; do \
>  ../tools/install-sh -c -m 644 ./${f} ""; \
> done
>
> Any ideas what might be causing "" to appear as the destination
directory?
>
> -- 
> 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
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>
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University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Dear Prof Ripley,

Thank you for your quick response!
> Please do not send questions to R-bugs (especially as well as to R-devel).
Sorry.  I took the addresses from a response to an older question that
I had received from Kurt Hornik.  That message had been cc'd to both.
> The thing you are getting as "" is from (see doc/Makefile)
>            $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/$${f} "$(rdocdir)"; \
> 
> What is rdocdir set to in Makeconf?  It (and related quantities) should be
> 
> rhome = ${libdir}/R
> rsharedir = ${rhome}/share
> rincludedir = ${rhome}/include
> rdocdir = ${rhome}/doc
rhome = ${libdir}/R
rsharedir = 
rincludedir = 
rdocdir = 

(I find this is the case both on Solaris 7 and on IRIX 6.5.)
> unless you set something non-standard during configure.  (If you did not, 
> the code is very simple and anything else here would seem to indicate a 
> bug in the shell used, but please debug it.)
The only changes to "./configure" that I made were to set the relevant
environment variables to pick the native compilers instead of gcc, and
--prefix=/afs/bi/v/{systemtype}/apps/stats/R/2.2.1 (for literal values
of system type; sgi_65, sun4x_57).

The shell I performed "configure" under is bash 2.05, which is
admittedly old too.  It hasn't caused any such problems before, though,
and I have built a very large amount of autoconfigured software for
these platforms with it.
> Solaris 7 is very old: this does work on Solaris 8 (from where I copied 
> the above).
IRIX 6.5 is current and displays the same issue.

Thank you for your help and suggestions.  If there is anything I can
do to help debug the problem further, please let me know.

-- 
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
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