R help - Aug 2003 - R-1.7.1 gets installed without default packages & without readline

Hi all,

Trying to install R-1.7.1 on a RedHat 8.0 platform, I have a few problems.

R gets installed without default packages (but base and ctest) : make 
script fails at the end of the procedure (configure is made 
successfully). This is the (translated) log I have :

/gcc -I../../../../include /usr/include/mysql  -D__NO_MATH_INLINES 
-mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c ansari.c -o ansari.o
gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations
make[5]: *** [ansari.o] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src/library/ctest/src'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src/library/ctest/src'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src/library/ctest'
make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src/library'
make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory// `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src'
make: *** [R] Error 1
/
However it's possible to start R but I have only base and ctest, and 
subsequently many warnings are displayed at startup. The only solution I 
found was to copy-paste libraries from a RPM version (which gets 
installed without trouble). Probably not a good solution. I already read 
carefully R-admin. What should I try now ?

Moreover, I have a problem with readline. First I did not manage to make 
the configure script satisfied about readline. I found in R archives 
that readline-devel should be present too. I downloaded it, indeed the 
configure script is now OK with readline. But I still have no 
command-line facilities enabled under R. Why ?

[laurent at localhost home]# rpm -qva | grep readline
readline-4.3-3
readline-devel-4.3-3
readline41-4.1-14

Thanks for any help.

Laurent

Laurent Faisnel <laurent.faisnel at ariase.com> writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> Trying to install R-1.7.1 on a RedHat 8.0 platform, I have a few problems.
> 
> R gets installed without default packages (but base and ctest) : make
> script fails at the end of the procedure (configure is made
> successfully). This is the (translated) log I have :
> 
> /gcc -I../../../../include /usr/include/mysql  -D__NO_MATH_INLINES
> -mieee-fp  -fPIC  -g -O2 -c ansari.c -o ansari.o
> gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations
> make[5]: *** [ansari.o] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src/library/ctest/src'
> make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src/library/ctest/src'
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src/library/ctest'
> make[2]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src/library'
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory// `/usr/local/R-1.7.1/src'
> make: *** [R] Error 1
> /
> However it's possible to start R but I have only base and ctest, and
> subsequently many warnings are displayed at startup. The only solution
> I found was to copy-paste libraries from a RPM version (which gets
> installed without trouble). Probably not a good solution. I already
> read carefully R-admin. What should I try now ?
> 
> Moreover, I have a problem with readline. First I did not manage to
> make the configure script satisfied about readline. I found in R
> archives that readline-devel should be present too. I downloaded it,
> indeed the configure script is now OK with readline. But I still have
> no command-line facilities enabled under R. Why ?
> 
> [laurent at localhost home]# rpm -qva | grep readline
> readline-4.3-3
> readline-devel-4.3-3
> readline41-4.1-14
You may need a "make distclean" step to purge what got messed up on
previous builds. 

The other issue seems to be due to a missepecification of your header
files. I think there wants to be a -I infront of /usr/include/mysql
there.

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Laurent  -

I had no trouble with configuring, compiling and running R under
Redhat 8.0.  My system now gives

uname -a
  Linux host 2.4.18-14smp #1 SMP Wed Sep4 12:34:47 EDT 2002 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux

rpm -qa | grep readline
  readline41-4.1-14
  readline-4.3-4
  readline-devel-4.3-3

The only difference I can see is that I have  readline-4.3-4,
while you show  readline-4.3-3.  So now I remember:  on CRAN,
somewhere near the R source rpm for linux when I downloaded it
there is a special readline rpm, and a readme file from Martyn
Plummer which says, in part,

"Graeme Ambler has kindly provided patched rpms. His gpg ID is
62897321 and his public key is available from pgp.net (see below)."

Somehow, I got readline-4.3-4 out of that rpm.  Hmmmm.  All seems
to work fine for me.

-  tom blackwell  -  u michigan medical school  -  ann arbor  -