Installation fails on FreeBSD

[reedacartwright]

Problem

Installation fails on FreeBSD because src/Makevars is not compatible with FreeBSD's make.

Workaround

Force R to use GNU Make by starting it with the following command:

env MAKE=gmake R

Error Message

* installing *source* package 'RSQLite' ...
** package 'RSQLite' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
make: "/tmp/RtmpQwiXHI/R.INSTALL91a141ff48e2/RSQLite/src/Makevars" line 21: Could not find Makevars.local
make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
make: stopped in /tmp/RtmpQwiXHI/R.INSTALL91a141ff48e2/RSQLite/src
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RSQLite'
* removing '/home/reed/R/amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3-library/3.3/RSQLite'

The downloaded source packages are in
	'/tmp/Rtmpn0kh8N/downloaded_packages'
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages(pkgs = pkgs, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
  installation of package 'RSQLite' had non-zero exit status

[krlmlr]

Thanks for reporting. Could you please try the b-#203-freebsd branch without the MAKE environment variable?

[reedacartwright]

It didn't work.

> gh_install_packages("RSQLite",ref="b-%23203-freebsd")
Suggestion:
 - rstats-db/RSQLite  R interface for SQLite
Do you want to install the package (Y/n)?  y
Installing "RSQLite" package from GitHub, but already installed from CRAN.
Are you sure the package is overwritten (Y/n)?  y
Downloading GitHub repo rstats-db/RSQLite@b-%23203-freebsd
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/rstats-db/RSQLite/zipball/b-%23203-freebsd
Installing RSQLite
Downloading GitHub repo rstats-db/DBI@production
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/rstats-db/DBI/zipball/production
Installing DBI
'/usr/local/lib/R/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore  \
  --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/tmp/RtmpeWExnk/devtools12836498bcc4b/rstats-db-DBI-4d9571a'  \
  --library='/home/reed/R/amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3-library/3.3'  \
  --install-tests 

* installing *source* package 'DBI' ...
** R
** tests
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (DBI)
'/usr/local/lib/R/bin/R' --no-site-file --no-environ --no-save --no-restore  \
  --quiet CMD INSTALL  \
  '/tmp/RtmpeWExnk/devtools1283633ecd82c/rstats-db-RSQLite-b5971d3'  \
  --library='/home/reed/R/amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3-library/3.3'  \
  --install-tests 

* installing *source* package 'RSQLite' ...
** libs
make: "/tmp/RtmpeWExnk/devtools1283633ecd82c/rstats-db-RSQLite-b5971d3/src/Makevars.local" line 4: Could not find 
make: "/tmp/RtmpeWExnk/devtools1283633ecd82c/rstats-db-RSQLite-b5971d3/src/Makevars.local" line 4: Could not find 
make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
make: stopped in /tmp/RtmpeWExnk/devtools1283633ecd82c/rstats-db-RSQLite-b5971d3/src
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'RSQLite'
* removing '/home/reed/R/amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3-library/3.3/RSQLite'
* restoring previous '/home/reed/R/amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3-library/3.3/RSQLite'
Error: Command failed (1)

I suspect there is a portability issue with Makevars.local. E.g. BSD Make doesn't support the $(wildcard) command (I think).

[krlmlr]

The Makevars.local file is for development only, I see that you might need GNU Make for that. Can you install from CRAN? The built tarballs shouldn't have this file.

[reedacartwright]

It failed when I installed from CRAN. And I don't think I can test the patch via cran.

[reedacartwright]

Nevermind. I figured out that I can just download the source from CRAN and manually apply your patch. Still doesn't work, because BSD make is trying to include a file that doesn't exist, and you rule to create it doesn't help. However, if you change include Makevars.local to sinclude Makevars.local it will ignore the missing file. GNU Make also supports this syntax.

[krlmlr]

I'll get rid of Makevars.local soon.