True, /tmp is noexec and this is generally a good practice
for system security. Okay, I'll define TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp
for the R package admin on our systems.
I think it'd be good if R developers could consider to add
something like:
If $TMPDIR is not executable, then EITHER
"error message"
OR
"mkdir $HOME/tmp; chmod u+x $HOME/tmp;
TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp; export TMPDIR"
in src/library/tools/R/install.R or wherever you seem to
fit.
Regards,
Zong-Pei
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, William Dunlap wrote:
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:30:32 -0700
From: William Dunlap
To: Uwe Ligges , zong-pei@imm.ox.ac.uk
Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
Subject: RE: [Rd] Installation problem from R 2.8.x
In September 2009 Matias Silva reported a execution permission
problem during a package installation (look in the r-devel archives
for ' [Rd] Installing rJava RJDBC bad interpreter: Permission denied').
It was due to the fstab file marking /tmp as noexec, hence nothing
in /tmp was executable, regardless of its file mode. Since the package
was copied to /tmp before compilation he ran into the problem.
I think he worked around it by setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp, where /var/tmp
did not have this restriction, before doing the install. His error
message was different but you might be having a similar problem.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software Inc - Spotfire Division
wdunlap tibco.com
> -Original Message-
> From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org
> [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Uwe Ligges
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:49 AM
> To: zong-pei@imm.ox.ac.uk
> Cc: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Installation problem from R 2.8.x
>
> What you call a bug in R has never been reported since R-2.8.0 was
> recent. Hence I guess it is a permission issue on your system.
> Or do you think nobody else tried to install a package during
> the last
> 12 months?
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> zong-pei@imm.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> > Dear Developers,
> >
> > Since 2.8, R installation has got a bug in it such
> > that if a package has a "configure" file then it
> > cannot be installed without modification.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > * Installing *source* package 'foreign' ...
> > ERROR: 'configure' exists but is not executable --
> > see the 'R Installation and Adminstration Manual'
> > * Removing '/usr/local/source_code/Linux/R/R-2.9.2/library/foreign'
> > make[2]: *** [foreign.ts] Error 1
> >
> > In fact, 'configure' is executable!!! So I have to manually
> > run 'configure', remove 'configure', and then repackage
> > foreign_0.8-37.tar.gz so it can be installed.
> >
> > This bug makes it very time consuming to add any package
> > which has a 'configure' in it. And the bug seems to be
> > in src/library/tools/R/install.R
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dr Zong-Pei Han
> > UNIX Systems Administrator
> > Computational Biology Research Group
> > University of Oxford
> > http://www.cbrg.ox.ac.uk/
> >
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