Re: [igraph] SOLVED! makefile errors in the (develop branch) interfaces/R folder --

[Glenn Lawyer]

The problem seems to interfaces/R/igraph/configure.in.

On my system, the ".in" extension tells autoconf to run version 2.13, which results in the reported errors. We can fix this by changing the file extension to .ac, but this also means re-writing the makefile (ugh).

The other option is to add the directive AC_PREREQ(2.50) to the file configure.in

At least on my system, adding this autoconf directive fixes this problem.

Note  I am still seeing odd things in the output of make, but you also see that the tar.gz files build without (reported) error, and the problems do not look fatal, I only list them here for your information:

mktemp: too few X's in template `igraph'
cp: cannot create regular file `/AUTHORS': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/DESCRIPTION': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/NEWS': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory `/R': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory `/autom4te.cache': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/configure': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/configure.in': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/configure.win': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory `/demo': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory `/inst': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory `/man': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory `/src': Permission denied
Error in library(devtools) : there is no package called 'devtools'
Execution halted
cp: cannot stat `/DESCRIPTION': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/NAMESPACE': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/man/*': No such file or directory
R CMD build igraph
* checking for file 'igraph/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'igraph':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* cleaning src
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* creating default NAMESPACE file
* building 'igraph_0.7.999-225.tar.gz'

R CMD build igraphdata
* checking for file 'igraphdata/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'igraphdata':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
* creating default NAMESPACE file
* building 'igraphdata_0.2.tar.gz'

+glenn

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     Dr. Glenn Lawyer                    
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     Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
     Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics
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