Hola! I just changed my laptop to debian squeeze, downloaded R devel from svn repo, as described in the manual.
Then I configured for building in a separate build dir with: kje...@kjetil:~/R/Rbuilddir$ sudo ../svn/configure --- which succeeded, with: R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Source directory: ../svn Installation directory: /usr/local C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 Fortran 77 compiler: gfortran -g -O C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2 Fortran 90/95 compiler: gfortran -g -O Obj-C compiler: Interfaces supported: X11 External libraries: readline, ICU Additional capabilities: NLS Options enabled: shared BLAS, R profiling, Java Recommended packages: yes Then sudo make stops near the end with: writing package indices make[3]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library/Recommended' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library/Recommended' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `MASS.ts', needed by `stamp-recommended'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library/Recommended' make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kjetil/R/Rbuilddir/src/library/Recommended' make: *** [stamp-recommended] Error 2 --- not able to make the time-stamps! Kjetil ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel