I've just tested R-alpha_2005-03-31.tar.gz. ./configure and make ran without any apparent errors, but make check failed:
58 (0) $ make check 2>&1 | tee make_check-logg make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests' make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests' make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests/Examples' make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests/Examples' make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests/Examples' make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests/Examples' collecting examples for package 'base' ... make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/src/library' >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'base' Formats: text html latex example make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/src/library' running code in 'base-Ex.R' ... OK collecting examples for package 'tools' ... make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/src/library' >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'tools' Formats: text html latex example make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/src/library' running code in 'tools-Ex.R' ... OK collecting examples for package 'utils' ... make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/src/library' >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'utils' Formats: text html latex example make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/src/library' running code in 'utils-Ex.R' ...make[4]: *** [utils-Ex.Rout] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests/Examples' make[3]: *** [test-Examples-Base] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests/Examples' make[2]: *** [test-Examples] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests' make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/tests' make: *** [check] Error 2 59 (0) $ The final part of tests/Examples/utils-Ex.Rout.fail reads > cleanEx(); ..nameEx <- "help.search" > > ### * help.search > > flush(stderr()); flush(stdout()) > > ### Name: help.search > ### Title: Search the Help System > ### Aliases: help.search print.hsearch > ### Keywords: documentation > > ### ** Examples > > help.search("linear models") # In case you forgot how to fit linear Error in iconv(db[[i]][ind, ], enc, "") : 'iconv' is not available on this system Execution halted The parts of the output fron ./configure that meantion "iconv" is checking iconv.h usability... yes checking iconv.h presence... yes checking for iconv.h... yes checking for iconv... yes checking whether iconv() accepts "UTF-8" and "latin1"... no checking for iconvlist... no [...] checking for iconv... yes checking for iconv declaration... extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft); The only warnings I got was checking whether makeinfo version is at least 4.7... no configure: WARNING: you cannot build info or html versions of the R manuals from ./configure, and gcc -I../../src/extra/zlib -I../../src/extra/bzip2 -I../../src/extra/pcre -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c regex.c -o regex.o regex.c:2525: warning: `noinline' attribute directive ignored regex.c:2699: warning: `always_inline' attribute directive ignored regex.c:6236: warning: `always_inline' attribute directive ignored [...] gcc -I/usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/include -I/usr/local/include -Wno-long-long -fPIC -g -O2 -c pfm-read.c -o pfm-read.o pfm-read.c:225: warning: `match' redefined /usr/local/src/R/R-alpha/include/Rinternals.h:1002: warning: this is the location of the previous definition from make. -- Bjørn-Helge Mevik ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel