Full_Name: John Noble Version: 2.10 OS: Solaris 10 SPARC Submission from: (NULL) (128.172.190.27)
The make of Recommended fails. All sections of Make work up to this point and the compiled version of R appears to be correct. Only when adding the recommended modules does the problem appear. The best I can figure the problem appears to be related to the fact that gzip will not decompress linked files without the "-f" option. Sample output follows: # make make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jnoble/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended' begin installing recommended package boot ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz' make[1]: *** [boot.ts] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jnoble/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended' make: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2 The boot.ts.out file contains: # more boot.ts.out ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz' If I try to run the command that the Makefile appears to be running by hand I get the following: # ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL -l "../../../library" boot.tgz ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz' Oddly, the following happens with the latest gzip: gzip -d boot.tgz gzip: boot.tgz: Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS This can be corrected with the "-f" option but I can't pass that into "R". Thanks, john noble VCU jno...@vcu.edu Solaris 10, SPARC ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
