无法在Fedora 14上安装R-2.15.2

Question

I need to install R-2.15.2 , the latest version. I tried using

blah> sudo yum install R 

to install R, but for whatever reason (maybe because it's an old version of Fedora?) my system thinks R version 13 is the most recent. So, I downloaded the .tar.gz file from R's site and used the following:

blah> tar -xvf R-2.15.2.tar.gz

This successfully unzipped the file. I then ran:

blah> ./configure

blah/R-2.15.2> ls

ChangeLog     COPYING  Makeconf.in  ONEWS   src       VERSION-NICK
config.log    doc      Makefile.fw  OONEWS  SVN-REVISION
config.site   etc      Makefile.in  po      tests
configure     INSTALL  NEWS     README  tools
configure.ac  m4       NEWS.pdf     share   VERSION

As you can see, makefiles are present. However, when I run "make" within the R folder, I get the following error:

blah/R-2.15.2> make

make: No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Is there any way I can fix this issue? I'm guessing people will recommend updating Fedora, but is there another way?

Answer 1

You should check whether the command ./configure terminate successfully. If ./configure return without error, there should be a file named with Makefile .

Answer 2

Comment seems to be very long, so posted this answer.

You should see just Makefile - no Makefile.in, Makefile.fw or Makefile.whatdoyouwant - just Makefile . This file appears after ./configure was successful. If you don't see just Makefile - then ./configure was not successful. So read its output and try to understand what it needs to do its work right way.

Answer 3

Run ./configure in the R-2.15.2 directory not in the blah directory. You should get a whole stream of output from ./configure if it runs. Once that is done, make should work.