Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> writes:
> hello r development team,
>
> i'm building R 2.3.0 on solaris and when i run the 'make
install' i'm
> getting a syntax error during the "installing etc ..." which
causes the
> installation to fail. i get this error whether i use gnu-make of
> sun-make, see the error and reasons below.
>
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/export/medusa/darin/build/R-2.3.0/etc'
> installing etc ...
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `for f in ; do /opt/csw/bin/ginstall -c -m 644
> ${f}
"/export/home/darin/build/R-2.3.0/cswstage/opt/csw/lib/R/etc";
done'
> gmake[1]: *** [install] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/export/medusa/darin/build/R-2.3.0/etc'
> gmake: *** [install] Error 1
>
> in etc/Makefile if i comment lines 60-62 make install continues without
> incident, here are those lines.
>
> @for f in $(EXPORTFILES); do \
> $(INSTALL_DATA) $${f} "$(rhome)/$(subdir)"; \
> done
>
> this has changed from R-2.2.1.
>
> diff etc/Makefile ../R-2.2.1/etc/Makefile"
>
> 60c52
> < @for f in $(EXPORTFILES); do \
> ---
> > @for f in $(OBJECTS) $(EXPORTFILES); do \
>
> should i open a bug for this issue? i'm also curious as to if this has
> come up on other platforms.
It only happens if your bash is old enough. I get the
rubin:~/> for f in ; do echo $f ; done
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
rubin:~/>help
GNU bash, version 2.05.0(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.9)
for f in ; do echo $f ; done
but not on Linux boxes with bash 3.x. However, I don't think we assume
bash 3.x (or bash as such for that matter and sh has same issue on
Solaris 9), so it is indeed a bug.
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