On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:05:22AM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > You are mixing makes. GNU make (presumably gmake) passes on its -w > argument to sub-makes, and my guess is that make is a BSD make that does > not accept it. > > The simplest way out is to have the 'make' first in your path as GNU make > whilst doing this.
Thanks very much, that was just right. I moved the original make, and placed a symlink to gmake there instead. Matrix then installed just fine. > BTW, this really is not the appropriate place: the posting guide suggests > the maintainers and then R-devel. Ah, that was a mental slip. My apologies. Andrew > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Andrew Robinson wrote: > > >Hi R-help citizens, > > > >I'm having trouble making version 0.99-6 of Matrix on FreeBSD 6.0. > >The error message is: > > > > > >* Installing *source* package 'Matrix' ... > >** libs > >gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES > >-fPIC -g -O2 -c Csparse.c -o Csparse.o > > > >... numerous lines deleted ... > > > >gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -I/usr/local/include -D__NO_MATH_INLINES > >-fPIC -g -O2 -c triplet_to_col.c -o triplet_to_col.o > >f77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c zpotf2.f -o zpotf2.o > >f77 -fPIC -g -O2 -c zpotrf.f -o zpotrf.o > >touch CHOLMOD.stamp UMFPACK.stamp COLAMD.stamp CCOLAMD.stamp AMD.stamp > >Metis.stamp LDL.stamp > >gmake[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/R.INSTALL.WMODs1/Matrix/src/CHOLMOD' > >( cd Lib ; make ) > >make: don't know how to make w. Stop > >gmake[1]: *** [library] Error 2 > > > > > >I am running: > > > > > >>version > > _ > >platform i386-unknown-freebsd6.0 > >arch i386 > >os freebsd6.0 > >system i386, freebsd6.0 > >status > >major 2 > >minor 2.1 > >year 2005 > >month 12 > >day 20 > >svn rev 36812 > >language R > > > >>sessionInfo() > >R version 2.2.1, 2005-12-20, i386-unknown-freebsd6.0 > > > >attached base packages: > >[1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" > >[7] "base" > > > > > >NB I was able to install Matrix 0.98-7 using the FreeBSD make without any > >problem. If I try to make version 0.99-6 using the FreeBSD make then > >it fails with "Missing dependency operator" errors. > > > >Does anyone have any suggestions? > > > >Thanks much, > > > >Andrew > >-- > >Andrew Robinson > >Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 > >University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 > >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au > > > >______________________________________________ > >R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >PLEASE do read the posting guide! > >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html