On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Giovanni Petris wrote: > > Hello, > > I am upgrading to the current R 2.5.1 under Sun Solaris 8.
Actually, 2.5.1 is not current: '2.5.1 patched' aka R-patched is and this has already been addressed there. > I call the configure script with the --without-readline flag, and it > works fine. Then, when I invoke make, I get this kind of error messages: > > > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R/R-2.5.1-inst/src/library' > >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'base' > Formats: text html latex example > Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference at > /usr/local/R/R-2.5.1-inst/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 78. > >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'tools' > Formats: text html latex example > Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference at > /usr/local/R/R-2.5.1-inst/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 78. > >>> Building/Updating help pages for package 'utils' > Formats: text html latex example > Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference at > /usr/local/R/R-2.5.1-inst/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 78. > > > (I don't know if this has to do with perl, but I have version 5.005_03) It does. My memory is that version of Perl predates Solaris 8 (it comes from the 1990's). You need Perl >= 5.6.1, and I would suggest installing Perl 5.8.x (which is already 6 years' old) as the next version of R will require it. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
