On 06/03/16 21:27, peter dalgaard wrote:
Hm, we'll likely never find out. It looks a bit like a race condition
or a Makefile deficiency in which some dependencies are not
explicitly recorded (so that it tries to copy files before they have
been made). I suppose that could happen if you try "make
Hm, we'll likely never find out. It looks a bit like a race condition or a
Makefile deficiency in which some dependencies are not explicitly recorded (so
that it tries to copy files before they have been made). I suppose that could
happen if you try "make install" w/o a preceding "make".
-pd
Thanks Peter. I tried running the uninstalled R; it worked. I checked
on the existence of FAQ, etc. --- yep everything was there. I don't
know about over-zealous virus checkers; I haven't overtly installed any
such.
So, mystified, I started all over again from scratch. This time it
work