Dan, I have just encountered this issue on my iMac at home yesterday which I have upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, so I'm pretty sure that this is caused either by the upgrade or by Xcode 3 installation (I did both at once, so I didn't check the status immediately after upgrade). I didn't install MacPorts, so I'm pretty sure that Apple it creating this mess. And yes, moving "lib 1" to lib fixes it.
Cheers, Simon On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:18 AM, dankelley wrote: > > Simon, quoted below, is correct about the /usr/local/lib infinite- > reference being a problem. In case it's of any use to other OSX > users, my guess is that macPorts caused that error. I infer that > based on the time at which the symlink was created, which was at the > time when I was trying to install MacPorts. (That install failed. > I cannot pin down the time too well because it took several hours of > compilation to fail.) > > I am putting a link to a posting I made on this issue below, in case > its thread expands to provide good hints for other R/Leopard users. > (Simon's suggestion about moving "lib 1" to "lib" worked for me.) > > http://www.nabble.com/problem-installing-2.6.1-on-OSX-Leopard-%28after-failed-MacPorts-install%29-tf4933141.html#a14119813 > > > > Simon Urbanek wrote: >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/R-install-problem-on-MacOS-10.5.1-%28PR-10476%29-tf4897418.html#a14170397 > Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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
