Thank you Simon, I ran: make install DESTDIR=/mnt/ami-centos5.5-64bit-base
Now I can execute this R which is in /mnt/ami-centos5.5-64bit-base/usr/local/bin two ways: cd /mnt/ami-centos5.5-64bit-base/usr/local/bin ./R and chroot /mnt/ami-centos5.5-64bit-base R Many thanks for your help. Regards, Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 10/6/10 4:45 AM, "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > On Oct 6, 2010, at 12:38 AM, Tena Sakai wrote: > >> Hi Everybody, >> >> I made R (v. 2.11.1) from source with the following config option: >> ./configure --prefix=/mnt/ami-centos5.5-64bit-base \ >> --exec-prefix=/mnt/ami-centos5.5-64bit-base \ >> --with-tcltk >> >> All seemed to go well, but when I tested it with: >> /usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/ami-centos5.5-64bit-base R >> It told me: >> /bin/R: line 217: /mnt/ami-centos5.5-64bit-base/lib64/R/etc/ldpaths: No such >> file or directory >> >> Question: >> How can I direct ldpaths file into this directory? >> > > That's a quite irrelevant question if your underlying goal is to run R - > ldpaths is your least problem - even if you fixed that nothing would work as > your R.home is entirely wrong. > > Note that by using chroot you're making the entire configuration under which > you compiled R invalid. > > If your chroot jailed configuration is identical to that of your main system, > you should configure R against your full system and use DESTDIR on make > install to place the installation in the jail. (Note that --prefix is > something entirely different!) > > If it's not then you are entirely on your own as you will have to use the > above approach but then also make sure any dependent tools and libraries used > by R are also present in the chroot jail. > > Cheers, > Simon > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel