Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: > Gavin Simpson wrote: > >>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:57 -0400, Kevin E. Thorpe wrote: >> >> >>>I downloaded R-patched (2005-08-04) from CRAN today. >>>I ran ./configure --enable-R-shlib >>> >>>I received the error message: >>> >>>checking for recommended packages... no >>>configure: error: Some of the recommended packages are missing >>> Use --without-recommended-packages if this was intentional >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>So was this intentional? > > > No, it wasn't. > > >>>I built a previous version of R-patched successfully on my system >>>which is running the SuSE 9,2 Pro Linux distribution. I untarred the >>>tar ball into the same directory I did my last build on in case that's >>>important. >>> >>>The only other differences between this attempt and my successful build >>>are: >>> >>>1. I did not use --enable-R-shlib last time. >>>2. I found and installed the blas libraries for this build. >>> >>>Have I messed up or made an erroneous assumption along the way? >> >> >>Yes and No. You obviously haven't compiled R recently. If you haven't >>got the recommended packages in the source you are compiling, configure >>now gives an error, which quite clearly states (and you've quoted it in >>your email!) that it cannot find (some of) the recommended packages. > > > Actually, I compiled it about a week ago. Here is my current version. > > > version > _ > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu > arch i686 > os linux-gnu > system i686, linux-gnu > status Patched > major 2 > minor 1.1 > year 2005 > month 07 > day 28 > language R > > When I compiled that version, I did my "tar xzf" to a clean directory > and did not receive that error. > > >>A solution - again given by the error message you quote! - is: >> >>./configure --enable-R-shlib --without-recommended-packages >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >>That should clear things up. > > > I realise that would clear it up. I was puzzled why I got this message > in the first place, given I didn't get it last week.
I believe there are two kinds of tar files. The daily snapshots don't include the recommended packages, the releases do. Or perhaps the test is a recent addition. Duncan Murdoch > > >>Other wise you need to cd to the R directory (where you have the source >>code), and then execute ./tools/rsync-recommended and then run your >>configure command. >> >>HTH >> >>G > > > Thanks for the rsync tip. > ______________________________________________ [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
