Re: [R] Somewhat obscure bug in R 3.4.0 building from source

2017-05-21 Thread Bert Gunter
... and whether or not Rich's suggestion resolves your difficulties, please google such issues in future; e.g. "report bugs R" brought up all sorts of info on R bug reporting. -- Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into i

Re: [R] Somewhat obscure bug in R 3.4.0 building from source

2017-05-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 21 May 2017, Peter Carbonetto wrote: The error occurs only when I do "make clean" followed by "make" again; make works the first time. Peter, I suggest you use 'make distclean' rather than 'make clean.' There are subtle differences between the two, yet the former is more complete. T

[R] Somewhat obscure bug in R 3.4.0 building from source

2017-05-21 Thread Peter Carbonetto
Hi, I uncovered a bug in installing R 3.4.0 from source in Linux, following the standard procedure (configure; make; make install). Is this an appropriate place to report this bug? If not, can you please direct me to the appropriate place? The error occurs only when I do "make clean" followed by