On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, jno...@vcu.edu wrote:
Full_Name: John Noble
Version: 2.10
There is no such version of R (see the posting guide for the need for
accurate reporting of version numbers). In 2.10.1, the unpacking is
usually done by either by
tar xf
or
gzip -dc | tar xf
so the behaviour of gzip -d without -c is not relevant.
As R 2.10.0 and 2.10.1 have been built on many Solaris 10 systems, by
far the most likely issue is a configuration problem on yours.
One possible workaround (not needed on our Solaris boxes) is to set
the environment variable TAR to a GNU version of tar that supports
unpacking compressed archives directly: R will then call that tar.
OS: Solaris 10 SPARC
Submission from: (NULL) (128.172.190.27)
The make of Recommended fails. All sections of Make work up to
this point and the compiled version of R appears to be correct.
Only when adding the recommended modules does the problem appear.
Do you mean the 'recommended packages': there are 'modules' and that
is not what is being installed at this stage?
The best I can figure the problem appears to be related to the fact
that gzip will not decompress linked files without the "-f" option.
Not the whole story ... but what version of gzip is this?
Sample output follows:
# make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jnoble/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended'
begin installing recommended package boot
ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz'
make[1]: *** [boot.ts] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jnoble/R-2.10.1/src/library/Recommended'
make: *** [recommended-packages] Error 2
The boot.ts.out file contains:
# more boot.ts.out
ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz'
If I try to run the command that the Makefile appears to be running
by hand I get the following:
# ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL -l "../../../library" boot.tgz
ERROR: cannot extract package from 'boot.tgz'
Oddly, the following happens with the latest gzip:
gzip -d boot.tgz
gzip: boot.tgz: Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal
exceeds MAXSYMLINKS
That is as expected, but where did you get the idea that gzip -d is
used in that fashion? The most likely command used,
gzip -dc boot.tgz | tar xf -
works for e.g. gzip 1.3.5 (which is what our Solaris 10 system has in
/usr/bin) and 1.3.12.
This can be corrected with the "-f" option but I can't pass that into "R".
Actually, you can: the gzip command used is set by R_GZIPCMD. But
you do not want to here.
Thanks, john noble
VCU
jno...@vcu.edu
Solaris 10, SPARC
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