On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Ah, so configure has chosen /bin/ksh as the shell, and that does not
like this sh syntax on your system. Try setting R_SHELL=/bin/sh when
configuring (or the path to bash, if you have that).
Alternatively, use $...@} in Rcmd.in (we have that as a workaround in
R.sh.in).
We even do it using @OSF_SH_BUG@, which would probably be a good idea to
clone in Rcmd.in.
Already done in R-devel. But the argument is whether we should
complicate R (and risk breaking currently working setups) or expect
people with broken tools to replace them. Certainly for AIX (where sh
is zsh and this workaround does not work) it is necessary to set
R_SHELL to bash.
On the other hand, the use of $...@} in Rcmd.in goes
back to at least 2002, which is a bit puzzling. Did OSF really not get
tested since then??
No: PR#9365 (which I fixed via @OSF_SH_BUG@) was in 2006 -- I think
that was the last report and long after any other.
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Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
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