R help - Sep 2000 - problem with installation from source on linux and solaris

On the solaris 7 box, using the Sun make, the configuration works
ok.  Even running make works ok.  However, when I run "make check" all
of
the tests fail.  It's a standard Ultra10, with full patches
applied...  and there are no errors generated during the make...

On the RH6.x linux box, configure works, make works, make check works,
make install works.  Hey, I can even see the R binary that gets dropped
into /usr/local/R-1.1.1/bin.  But when I try to run it, I get a text
message "welcome to R yada yada yada" and then it quite by saying that
it
cannot access the base package.

And then last night on a different RH 6.2 linux box, using the SRPMS, my
husband (sys admin extraordinaire) tried making a new R rpm for me, but it
failed because it couldn't find one file (man/R.1 or something?) during
the rpm build.

I'd welcome any insights...

-jennifer

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Jennifer Steinbachs <stein at fmnh.org> writes:
> On the solaris 7 box, using the Sun make, the configuration works
> ok.  Even running make works ok.  However, when I run "make
check" all of
> the tests fail.  It's a standard Ultra10, with full patches
> applied...  and there are no errors generated during the make...
Hum, we need a bit more to go on there. *How* do they fail? I'm
getting a bit rusty on that part, but once upon a time you needed
GNU make to run make check on Solaris.
> On the RH6.x linux box, configure works, make works, make check works,
> make install works.  Hey, I can even see the R binary that gets dropped
> into /usr/local/R-1.1.1/bin.  But when I try to run it, I get a text
> message "welcome to R yada yada yada" and then it quite by saying
that it
> cannot access the base package.
Well that welcome message would seem to be rather unexpected... ;^) 

That'll be the plain old .tgz file configured with
--prefix=/usr/local/R-1.1.1, right?

If it cannot access the base package, it might be a good idea to see
if you can find it...:

$ ls -l `R RHOME`/library/base/R
total 596
-rw-r--r--    1 pd       users        2487 Aug 20 15:55 Rprofile
-rw-r--r--    1 pd       users      602412 Aug 20 15:55 base


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On 08-Sep-00 Jennifer Steinbachs wrote:
> 
> And then last night on a different RH 6.2 linux box, using the SRPMS, my
> husband (sys admin extraordinaire) tried making a new R rpm for me, but it
> failed because it couldn't find one file (man/R.1 or something?) during
> the rpm build.
It is difficult to say what went wrong. Where any changes made to the
SPEC file? If not, then I think it would be best to solve the problem
of installing from the original source first.

I'm not sure why you wanted to rebuild the RPM.  If it was to change
the prefix, you can do this when you install, e.g.

rpm -Uvh --prefix=/usr/local R-base-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm

will put R in /usr/local instead of the default /usr

Martyn
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