[R] Problem with installation of littler-0.0.10. under Free BSD 6.2

[ronggui]

MyBSD% make -v
make: no target to make.
MyBSD% gmake -v
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-portbld-freebsd6.2
MyBSD% cd software/littler-0.0.10
MyBSD% make
R_HOME= /usr/local/bin/R --silent --vanilla --slave <  > autoloads.h
Syntax error: redirection unexpected
*** Error code 2

Stop in /home/ronggui/software/littler-0.0.10.
MyBSD% export MAKE=gmake
MyBSD% make
R_HOME= /usr/local/bin/R --silent --vanilla --slave <  > autoloads.h
Syntax error: redirection unexpected
*** Error code 2

Stop in /home/ronggui/software/littler-0.0.10.
MyBSD%


%From pkg_info -x make
I find  automake-1.4.6_2 and gnu-automake-1.9.6 is installed in the BSD box.


On 3/13/07, Jeffrey Horner <jeff.horner at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On 12 March 2007 at 13:38, ronggui wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > | MyBSD% make
> > | R_HOME= /usr/local/bin/R --silent --vanilla --slave <  > autoloads.h
> > | Syntax error: redirection unexpected
> > | *** Error code 2
> > |
> > | Stop in /home/ronggui/software/littler-0.0.10.
> > |
> > | Anyone knows why and any hints to the solution? Thanks in advance.
>
> This is a problem with your make command not expanding '$<' . CCan you
> ruun make -v to tell us what version it is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jeff
>
> >
> > Jeff and I know that the world was created inside a bash shell.
>
> And indeed it was! ;)
> >
> > Seriously, can you try running configure inside a shell with working redirects?
> > If you can't then you may need to simulate by hand what this would do,
> > outside of configure, and then run make.
> >
> > Let us know.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > | --
> > | Ronggui Huang
> > | Department of Sociology
> > | Fudan University, Shanghai, China
> > | »ÆÈÙ¹ó
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>


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Ronggui Huang
Department of Sociology
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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