Benilton Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyone, > > Firstly, I'm sorry for the cross-post. I re-read the posting guide > and it appears my question is more related to r-devel.... (i think :-) ) > > I downloaded the source code available at: > > http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.4.0.tar.gz > > to a linux machine (Linux 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp #1 SMP). > > I successfully configured and compiled it, which means I'm able to > run it from the R-2.4.0/bin directory. > > I want to do a system wide installation (via 'sudo make install') and > help2man fails, ie, when I execute the installation command mentioned > previously I get: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bcarvalh/R-2.4.0/m4' > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bcarvalh/R-2.4.0/m4' > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bcarvalh/R-2.4.0/tools' > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bcarvalh/R-2.4.0/tools' > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bcarvalh/R-2.4.0/doc' > installing doc ... > help2man: can't get `--version' info from ../bin/R > make[1]: *** [R.1] Error 255 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bcarvalh/R-2.4.0/doc' > make: *** [install] Error 1 > > Searching the archive, I did find a similar report (http:// > tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/06/01/3699.html) but the proposed > solution did not work for me. > > Any suggestion?
Well if nothing else works, there's a Fedora Extra RPM for R-2.4.0... http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/repoview/R-0-2.4.0-2.fc4.1.html The symptoms suggest that you can run ../bin/R, but root cannot, so check permissions. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
