This is really an R-devel question -- it is about an unreleased version of R.
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote: > Hi there ... > > Not too long after the switch to using Subversion I tried to checkout & > build R but encountered an error - and being short on time at that point > put it off to look at later. So today I sat down again and was > encountering this error every time I would attempt to build: > > dumping R code in package 'methods' > Saving namespace image ... > initializing class and method definitions now ...done > <environment: namespace:methods> > usage: touch [-acfm] [-r file] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] file ... > *** Error code 1 > > I traced this down to the Makefile in methods: > $(top_builddir)/library/$(pkg)/R/$(pkg).rdb: $(top_builddir)/library/$(pkg)/R/all.rda > @echo "tools:::makeLazyLoading(\"$(pkg)\")" | \ > R_DEFAULT_PACKAGES=NULL LC_COLLATE=C $(R_EXE) --slave > > /dev/null > @cat /dev/null > $(top_builddir)/library/$(pkg)/R/all.rda > @touch $^ > > > I'm not sure what it is about that touch call, but commenting it out > causes things to build normally. When I try to echo '$^', it appears to > be an empty string. > > This is all on a FreeBSD machine - I'm assuming it is somehow OS specific > as this would have come up a bunch of times if it wasn't. Yes. Seems a make peculiarity, not even shared by Solaris make. To get you going, replace $^ by $(top_builddir)/library/$(pkg)/R/$(pkg).rdb. However, I am working right now on streamlining this now we don't allow lazy-loading to be optional. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
