The architecture is called i386. Try r_arch=i386 ./configure
That should work. Cheers Joris On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Vinh Nguyen <vqngu...@uci.edu> wrote: > Dear R-Devel, > > I'm using Ubuntu on an x86_64 machine and would like to have both the > 32-bit and 64-bit versions of R built from source. By default, > following the usual build procedures yields 64 bit R. Looking at > [these](http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Sub_002darchitectures), > I thought I could build 32-bit R by executing > > r_arch=32 ./configure > > and building R like usual (make). However, after seeing this error message, > > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file > `../../include/32/Rconfig.h': No such file or directory > > I realize I am misunderstanding the instructions. Could someone > please clarify how I could go about compiling both 32-bit and 64-bit > versions of R on my Linux machine? Thank you! > > -- Vinh > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel