Thanks, Prof. Ripley. I downloaded the new admin.R and used that in place of one in R-2.0.0 build directory. The compile went fine. So, for the record, R-2.0.0 + Prof. Ripley's fixed admin.R compiles fine on "alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu".
---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] rajiv]$ R R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.0.0 (2004-10-04), ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. [Previously saved workspace restored] > version _ platform alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu arch alphapca56 os linux-gnu system alphapca56, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 0.0 year 2004 month 10 day 04 language R > Rajiv > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 9:47 AM > To: Prasad, Rajiv > Cc: Peter Dalgaard; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem Compiling R-2.0.0 on Linux Alpha > > > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Prasad, Rajiv wrote: > > > Thanks, Peter, and Prof. Ripley. > > > > My efforts last night was mostly futile except that it told > me about > > the embedded newline in Built field. > > > > Prof. Ripley: how do I get your fixes? Can I just download > > R-2.0.0-patched? > > Yes, tomorrow's tarball unless you want to get it from the > SVN archive. The change is in src/library/tools/R/admin.R and > looks like > > Built <- > paste("R ", > paste(R.version[c("major", "minor")], > collapse = "."), > "; ", > if(file_test("-d", file.path(dir, "src"))) OStype > else "", > "; ", > ## Prefer date in ISO 8601 format. > ## Could also use > ## format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %X %Y") > Sys.time(), > "; ", > .OStype(), > sep = "") > > ## we must not split the Built: field across lines > writeLines(c(formatDL(names(db), db, style = "list"), > paste("Built", Built, sep=": ")), > file.path(outDir, "DESCRIPTION")) > db["Built"] <- Built > > Obviously I have not tested on an Alphabc...tuvwxyz system > but it should > work there. > > > -- > 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel