R help - Oct 2003 - make error R-1.8.0 on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386)

My first Problem is a minor one. Maybe some knows a reson. Pleas give me a 
hint off-line, as it seems to be something stupid.

1. I sent my first mail to r-help at lists.R-project.org and got 

Delivery Failure Report 

Your document:  make error R-1.8.0 on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386)
was not delivered to:   r-help at lists.R-project.org
because:        Delivery time expired

I already had this problem earlier and last time r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 
worked.

2. But now the real issue:

I can't make R-1.8.0 on our SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386). 

make reports:

make[3]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/doc/html'
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/doc/html'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/doc/manual'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/doc'
make[1]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/src/library'
building all R object docs (text, HTML, LaTeX, examples)
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/src/library'
cat: ../../library/*/CONTENTS: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [DOCS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/src/library'
make[1]: *** [docs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/src/library'
make: [docs] Error 2 (ignored)


and a make check reports:

make[1]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests'
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests/Examples'
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests/Examples'
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests/Examples'
make[4]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests/Examples'
collecting examples for package 'base' ...
make[5]: Entering directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/src/library'
cat: ../../library/*/CONTENTS: No such file or directory
make[5]: *** [DOCS] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/src/library'
file ../../library/base/R-ex cannot be opened at 
../../share/perl/massage-Examples.pl line 107.
running code in 'base-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [base-Ex.Rout] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests/Examples'
make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests/Examples'
make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests'
make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/yphome/hoffman/projects/rsources/R-1.8.0/tests'
make: *** [check] Error 2

This looks like nothing serious - as it seems only to concern the 
documentation - but it's too serious for me to figure it out.

I tried to start R-1.8.0/bin/R anyway. It starts, but after "Type
'q()' to quit R." it crashes with a "Segmentation fault (core
dumped)".

Hope for some help. Thanks in advance.

maciej


Maciej Hoffman-Wecker
Evotec OAI AG
Discovery Informatics
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