I have uptodate Debian Buster on my Linux platform and have been compiling R distros for quite some time, usually with success. This time I have encountered the same error in my attempts to compile v-4..1.2 and then, when that failed, I had the same error with v-4.1.0. The error in both cases was: /home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10: Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or directory. I don't have the faintest idea as to what is going on, and, even worse, I don't know how to fix it. Help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. www.molecular-modeling.net 614.312.7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 14:57:24 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net> wrote:> /home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10: > Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or directoryThis is the case of Make breaking things by splitting the file path by whitespace. Line 9 of Makeconf even contains a comment regarding this:>> ## This fails if it contains spaces, or if it is quotedRename "R Packages" to R_Packages (or anything else without spaces in it) to work around the error. -- Best regards, Ivan
On 08/11/2021 2:57 p.m., Stephen P. Molnar wrote:> I have uptodate Debian Buster on my Linux platform and have been > compiling R distros for quite some time, usually with success. > > This time I have encountered the same error in my attempts to compile > v-4..1.2 and then, when that failed, I had the same error with v-4.1.0. > > The error in both cases was: > > /home/comp/Downloads/R Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/etc/Makeconf:10: > Packages/R-4.1.0/R-4.1.0/share/make/vars.mk: No such file or directory. > > I don't have the faintest idea as to what is going on, and, even worse, > I don't know how to fix it. > > Help will be greatly appreciated. >I think you'll need to describe what you did that led to this error. Duncan Murdoch