R devel - Apr 2004 - (PR#6815): build fails for foreign with Sun Forte

This is a reproducible bug that I reported earlier.  The work-around is to 
remove the link foreign.tgz so that the build does not attempt to create the 
foreign library.  However, there is actually nothing wrong with the foreign 
source so the problem must be somewhere in the configure process.  After make 
install, then use the original source as follows and everything should work:
R CMD INSTALL foreign_0.6-6.tar.gz

Rodney Sparapani              Medical College of Wisconsin
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There is nothing here to reproduce, as *we* said earlier!  We need the
exact details (OS, compilers, R version, make version, environmental
variables, configure command line etc) just to document the problem. You
have not mentioned what goes wrong nor given any error messages.

To repeat, R 1.9.0 *does* build on Sun Solaris 8 and 9 using the Sun Forte
7 aka Pro One compilers.  The problem is something about your setup, and
in particular is the separate installation works it looks like a bug in
either your make or your shell -- so exactly which versions are they?


On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 rsparapa@post.its.mcw.edu wrote:
> This is a reproducible bug that I reported earlier.  The work-around is to 
> remove the link foreign.tgz so that the build does not attempt to create
the
> foreign library.  However, there is actually nothing wrong with the foreign
> source so the problem must be somewhere in the configure process.  After
make
> install, then use the original source as follows and everything should
work:
> R CMD INSTALL foreign_0.6-6.tar.gz
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