The problem is the following # make docs Make: Don't know how to make ../src/library/*/man/*.Rd. Stop. *** Exit 1 (ignored) # I am using a DEC alpha 200/4/233 with Digital Unix 3.2D My previous version of R was R-0.50-a1. I have installed around 3 or 4 previous versions on the same system and never had a problem (but, then the Makefile was very different). The first make to compile everything went OK as usual. I have a standard installation of perl 5 (accepting all defaults in configure). Any ideas? Mark -- Mark A. Beaumont Conservation Genetics Group Institute of Zoology Regent's Park London NW1 4RY Tel: 0171 449 6617 Fax: 0171 586 2870 Email: m.beaumont at ucl.ac.uk -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:14:00 +0100, >>>>> Mark A Beaumont (MAB) wrote:MAB> The problem is the following MAB> # make docs MAB> Make: Don't know how to make ../src/library/*/man/*.Rd. Stop. MAB> *** Exit 1 (ignored) MAB> # MAB> I am using a DEC alpha 200/4/233 with Digital Unix 3.2D MAB> My previous version of R was R-0.50-a1. I have installed around 3 or 4 MAB> previous versions on the same system and never had a problem (but, then MAB> the Makefile was very different). The first make to compile everything MAB> went OK as usual. I have a standard installation of perl 5 (accepting MAB> all defaults in configure). MAB> Any ideas? This is a known install bug (and will hopefully be fixed very soon). The problem is not perl but your version of make ... installing docs works only with GNU make (not DEC make), so if GNU make is installed on your system (it might be called gmake), use this. Best, Fritz -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 4541 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 504 14 98 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch PGP public key http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/pgp.key ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Mark A. Beaumont wrote:> The problem is the following > # make docs > Make: Don't know how to make ../src/library/*/man/*.Rd. Stop. > *** Exit 1 (ignored) > # > > I am using a DEC alpha 200/4/233 with Digital Unix 3.2D > ............ > > Any ideas? >No, but I can report exactly the same failure yesterday on a Sparc running SunOS4.1.3. Worked fine on Solaris2.4, though. G|ran Brostr|m -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._