Many thanks to Peter for the explanation. I found that the fix for me was to set the environment variable R_SHELL to '/usr/bin/bash', otherwise (on my AIX system at least) the shell being used was /bin/sh. Darin
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:54:31AM -0500, Darin England wrote: > I have the same problem trying build R 2.9.0 on AIX using the IBM > Visual Age compilers and GNU make. I'm trying to figure it out, but > any hints on a fix are greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Darin > > gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/denglan/R/builddir/src/library/methods' > building package 'methods' > mkdir ../../../library/methods > gmake[3]: Entering directory `/home/denglan/R/builddir/src/library/methods' > mkdir ../../../library/methods/R > /bin/sh: syntax error at line 1 : `;' unexpected > gmake[3]: *** [front] Error 2 > gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/denglan/R/builddir/src/library/methods' > gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/denglan/R/builddir/src/library/methods' > gmake[1]: *** [R] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/denglan/R/builddir/src/library' > gmake: *** [R] Error 1 > make: The error code from the last command is 1. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
