On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Out of interest, why (the hell!) would the R installer trying to > temper with gcc's files? It looks like it is either trying to rename > or delete them. >
Because it *is* the gcc files? (Note the "/local" in the paths.) Full R comes with GNU Fortran 4.2.1, because Apple doesn't offer any Fortran compiler and most other Fortran compiler binaries for Mac OS X out on the web are not really working well. It installs in /usr/local. > R needs gfortran's runtime library, and tries to detect for its > presence, that's fair enough... It doesn't need it, or rather, it ships its own copy inside the R framework. If you install just R, it won't touch anything outside the R.framework / R.app. > modifying, no. Is the failure because the R installer try to put in > some of gcc/xcode, which the user already has, or something like that? > No. The failure is due to a strange symlink in /usr/local/lib that points to itself. I suspect that this has something to do with an upgrade from Tiger to Leopard or Xcode 3 installation and that Apple actually creates that infinite symlink. Given that there is "/usr/loca/ lib 1" lingering around, I'd bet that sudo rm /usr/local/lib sudo mv '/usr/local/lib 1' /usr/local/lib will fix the problem. I'm not quite sure what to do with this - I don't really want out installer to start attempting to fix broken OS X. If we start doing so, we may as well replace entire the X11 on Leopard ;). Cheers, Simon > > Saleem Bhatti wrote: >> Simon; >> On 30 Nov 2007, at 15:38, Simon Urbanek wrote: >>> Window -> Installer Log >>> You can then use Save ... to save it in a file. >> OK - file is attached. >>> Well, yes, but you said "automated install" - so how were you >>> running an "automated" install? For me automated install is run >>> via /usr/sbin/installer utility and that doesn't have any UI, so I >>> was wondering what are you using exactly? >> My apologies for the confusion. >> Cheers, >> --/Saleem >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
