Thanks for the reply, Peter. The build is done in a clean directory, and --without-tcltk does not help. I thought it is much better to track this down and fix it anyway.
Agreed there aren't too many Alphas out there anymore, but I plan to keep mine going for a while -- sweet machine. :-) So, I looked into the DESCRIPTION file for package tcltk, and here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tcltk]$ more DESCRIPTION Package: tcltk Version: 2.0.0 Priority: base Title: Tcl/Tk Interface Author: R Development Core Team Maintainer: R Core Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Interface and language bindings to Tcl/Tk GUI elements License: GPL Version 2 or later. Built: R 2.0.0; alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu; 2004-10-15 17:25:37; unix And for comparison, here is DESCRIPTION from base: [EMAIL PROTECTED] base]$ more DESCRIPTION Package: base Version: 2.0.0 Priority: base Title: The R Base Package Author: R Development Core Team and contributors worldwide Maintainer: R Core Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: Base R functions License: GPL Version 2 or later. Built: R 2.0.0; ; Fri Oct 15 17:20:28 PDT 2004; unix So your suspicion regarding that newline seems correct. Trouble is, the newline appears in DESCRIPTION files for grid, splines, tools, methods, and stats, too. I noticed that grid, splines, methods, and stats built fine, even though their DESCRIPTION files had the newlines in the Built field. I'm going to manually edit the DESCRIPTION files and remove the newlines and continue with make from the point where it stopped previously. We'll see if that fixes it. Will edit .split_description to include the print statements you mentioned. Thanks again. Rajiv > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 1:33 AM > To: Prasad, Rajiv > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Problem Compiling R-2.0.0 on Linux Alpha > > > "Prasad, Rajiv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Error in "names<-.default"(`*tmp*`, value = c("R", > "Platform", "Date", > > : > > names attribute [4] must be the same length as the > vector [3] > > Execution halted > > make[2]: *** [R] Error 1 > > make[2]: Leaving directory > > `/home1/rajiv/software/src-7.2/R-2.0.0/src/library' > > make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 > > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home1/rajiv/software/src-7.2/R-2.0.0/src' > > make: *** [R] Error 1 > > > > Does this indicate a problem with R, or something in my system > > installation? A search on R help list archives did not > turn up this > > particular error. > > Specific to your architecture at least (not too many Alphas > around, but this works elsewhere). It's a pretty odd bug: It > would seem to come from inside .split_description > (tools/R/admin.R) where it would indicate that the Built > field has less than three "; " separators, but the paste > construct in .install_package_description that creates the > field does seem to put them in. One conjecture is that a > newline sneaked in somehow... > > I'd first look for malformed DESCRIPTION files in your build > directory, then maybe insert some debugging code into > .split_description (e.g. print(sys.status());print(Built) > immediately before the names<- bit). > > Are you doing this in a clean directory, btw, or might you > possibly be picking up bits of a previous build? > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: > (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: > (+45) 35327907 > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html