R help - Sep 2000 - on-line help failed for ultra 10 (solaris 8)

New Sun workstation with Solaris 8.  installed the gnu
compilers and libraries off the Solaris CD and
compiled R successfully.  I don't have a tex
installation or makeinfo (sp?) so the manuals failed
to compile, but otherwise R appears to be working. 
Unfortunately the on-line help (text-only) isn't
working.  Is this related to the failed manuals?
Example:
>?help
Error in help("help") : No documentation for 'help' in
specified packages and libraries

I attempted to 'make help' per the INSTALL page, but
this led to the following errors:

flow# make help
Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC at
/opt/sfw/R/R-1.1.1/bin/build-help line 23.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/opt/sfw/R/R-1.1.1/bin/build-help line 23.
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `DOCS'
Current working directory
/opt/sfw/R/R-1.1.1/src/library
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `help'
Current working directory
/opt/sfw/R/R-1.1.1/src/library
*** Error code 1 (ignored)

Any help/advise for kick starting the help system
would be appreciated.

Thanks,

David Finlayson

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David Finlayson <david_finlayson at yahoo.com> writes:
> New Sun workstation with Solaris 8.  installed the gnu
> compilers and libraries off the Solaris CD and
> compiled R successfully.  I don't have a tex
> installation or makeinfo (sp?) so the manuals failed
> to compile, but otherwise R appears to be working. 
> Unfortunately the on-line help (text-only) isn't
> working.  Is this related to the failed manuals?
> Example:
> 
> >?help
> Error in help("help") : No documentation for 'help' in
> specified packages and libraries
> 
> I attempted to 'make help' per the INSTALL page, but
> this led to the following errors:
> 
> flow# make help
> Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC at
> /opt/sfw/R/R-1.1.1/bin/build-help line 23.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /opt/sfw/R/R-1.1.1/bin/build-help line 23.
Looks like a problem with your perl installation. File/Basename.pm is
generally found in perl's lib directory, e.g. /usr/local/lib/perl5

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