[R] compiling R-1.5.0, package methods, on Solaris 5.7

[Uwe Ligges]

Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> Compiling package methods, R-1.5.0, on Solaris 5.7 failed (output below)
> for me with
> - gcc-2.95.3, perl-5.005_03
>  and also
> - gcc-3.0.4, perl-5.6.1
> 
> Any ideas a) what the problem is or even better b) how to solve it?


Thanks to Jonathan Baron and Brian Ripley for suggestions.

The problem was, I have set an environment variable R_LIBS (and forgot
it) to the location of an old R library path.
In that case the R script all.R which is generated and executed with the
recently builded new version of R during the compilation of the package
"methods" uses the old package paths instead of the new ones.

Uwe Ligges


> ===================================
> 
> [...]
> 
> building package 'methods'
> ../../../library/methods/man/methods.Rd is unchanged
> making do_substitute_direct.d from do_substitute_direct.c
> 
> [...]
> 
> gcc -I../../../../include  -I/usr/local/include   -fPIC  -g -O2 -c
> slot.c -o slo
> t.o
> gcc -G  -o methods.so do_substitute_direct.o methods_list_dispatch.o
> method_met
> a_data.o slot.o
> dumping R code in package 'methods'
> initializing class and method definitions now ...Error in
> .Call("R_missingArg",
> if (eval) symbol else substitute(symbol),  :
>         .Call function name not in load table
> Execution halted
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target
> `../../../library/methods/R/all.rda'
> 
> [...]
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