I'm sure I'm being an absolute bonehead (again), but can someone suggest what I might be doing wrong?
Trying to build latest r-devel on Ubuntu 10.04; as recommended in various places, trying to build it in a separate build directory (since starting to compose this e-mail I've found that it works if I build in the original source directory [as disrecommended], so this has become a less urgent question, but I'm still curious what I'm doing wrong). I configure, make (see details below), eventually get to "/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `../../include/Rinternals.h': No such file or directory make[2]: *** [Rinternals.ts] Error 1". Any thoughts about what's going on here or what I can do to further diagnose the problem? thanks Ben Bolker ================== bolker@ubuntu-10:~/R/r-devel$ svn update At revision 58379. cd ../r-build make distclean ../r-devel/configure R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu Source directory: ../r-devel Installation directory: /usr/local C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 Fortran 77 compiler: gfortran -g -O2 C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2 Fortran 90/95 compiler: gfortran -g -O2 Obj-C compiler: Interfaces supported: X11, tcltk External libraries: readline Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, NLS, cairo Options enabled: shared BLAS, R profiling, Java Recommended packages: yes make bolker@ubuntu-10:~/R/r-build$ make make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/m4' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `R'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/m4' make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/tools' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `R'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/tools' make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc' make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc/html' make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc/html' make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc/html' make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc/html' make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc/manual' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `R'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc/manual' make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc' make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc' make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/doc' make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/etc' make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/etc' make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/share' make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/share' mkdir -p -- ../share/R mkdir -p -- ../share/encodings mkdir -p -- ../share/java mkdir -p -- ../share/licenses mkdir -p -- ../share/make mkdir -p -- ../share/sh mkdir -p -- ../share/texmf mkdir -p -- ../share/texmf/bibtex/bib mkdir -p -- ../share/texmf/bibtex/bst mkdir -p -- ../share/texmf/tex/latex make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/share' make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/share' make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/src' make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/src/scripts' creating src/scripts/R.fe make[3]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/src/scripts' mkdir -p -- ../../bin make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/src/scripts' make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/src/scripts' make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/src/include' /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `../../include/Rinternals.h': No such file or directory make[2]: *** [Rinternals.ts] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/src/include' make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/hgfs/bolker/Documents/R/r-build/src' make: *** [R] Error 1 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel