For what it is worth, I've just installed R-alpha Version 2.3.0 alpha (2006-04-07 r37668) on my G5 and encountered the same problem reported below. The same treatment got things going again. If this reflects some idiosyncrasy in my setup, my apologies....
url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:31 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, roger koenker wrote: > >> I sent the message below to r-sig-mac yesterday, but having no reply >> I decided to explore a bit myself and found that editing: >> >> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/share/make/ >> shlib.mk >> >> yzzy: diff shlib.mk shlib.mk~ >> 3c3 >> < include $(R_HOME)/etc/Makeconf >> --- >> > include $(R_HOME)/etc${R_ARCH}/Makeconf >> >> restored the functionality of R CMD INSTALL. >> >> Is this a known issue? > > No, and the change will break things which currently work correctly. > > Looks like this is something specific to how Macs install under the > bin/exec directory. It likely stems from the following line in > INSTALL. > > archs=`(cd ${R_HOME}/bin/exec; ls)` > > which on other systems will only contain directories for sub- > architectures or the R or Rgnome executables, since it says > >>> ** arch - Frameworks > > >> >> url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker >> email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics >> vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois >> fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: roger koenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: March 13, 2006 4:46:30 PM CST >>> To: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >>> Subject: makeconf issue on R-devel 2006-03-12 r37524 >>> >>> I've just installed R-devel Version 2.3.0 Under development >>> (unstable) (2006-03-12 r37524) >>> on a G5 and things went smoothly despite my gfortran configuration, >>> (that is ./configure, make, >>> make install was fine), but now trying to install a source package >>> I get: >>> >>> yzzy: R CMD check kuantile >>> * checking for working latex ... OK >>> * using log directory '/Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/ >>> kuantile.Rcheck' >>> * using Version 2.3.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-03-12 >>> r37524) >>> * checking for file 'kuantile/DESCRIPTION' ... OK >>> * this is package 'kuantile' version '1.00' >>> * checking package dependencies ... OK >>> * checking if this is a source package ... WARNING >>> Subdirectory 'kuantile/src' contains object files. >>> * checking whether package 'kuantile' can be installed ... ERROR >>> Installation failed. >>> See '/Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/kuantile.Rcheck/00install.out' >>> for details. >>> >>> yzzy: more /Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/kuantile.Rcheck/ >>> 00install.out >>> * Installing *source* package 'kuantile' ... >>> ** libs >>> ** arch - Frameworks >>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/make/shlib.mk:3: / >>> Library/Frameworks/R.fra >>> mework/Resources/etc/Frameworks/Makeconf: No such file or directory >>> make: *** No rule to make target `/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ >>> Resources/etc/Frameworks >>> /Makeconf'. Stop. >>> chmod: /Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/kuantile.Rcheck/kuantile/libs/ >>> Frameworks/*: No such >>> file or directory >>> gfortran -fPIC -fno-common -g -O2 -c dsel05.f -o dsel05.o >>> gfortran -fPIC -fno-common -g -O2 -c kuantile.f -o kuantile.o >>> gcc -flat_namespace -bundle -undefined suppress -L/sw/lib -L/usr/ >>> local/lib -o kuantile.so >>> dsel05.o kuantile.o -L/usr/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple- >>> darwin8/4.0.0 -L/usr/local/lib/gcc >>> -lgfortran -lgcc_s -lSystemStubs -lmx -lSystem -F/Library/ >>> Frameworks/R.framework/.. -fram >>> ework R >>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'kuantile' >>> ** Removing '/Users/roger/Projects/kuantile/kuantile.Rcheck/ >>> kuantile' >>> >>> isn't there something fishy with the specification of the Makeconf >>> file in ..../etc/Frameworks??? >>> >>> Roger >>> >>> >>> url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker >>> email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics >>> vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois >>> fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > > -- > 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel