[Phylobase-devl] failed mac build

[Ben Bolker]

   All I can say offhand is that 1.5.1 is really really old by
R standards, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot (especially
S4-related) had changed since then ... how hard would it be
to install a later version ...?

   Ben

Steve Kembel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been finding it hard to diagnose problems when building phylobase. 
> I didn't get very far on my attempts to cross-compile for Mac on a AMD64 
> linux box, in fact I couldn't even get phylobase to install or pass 
> check. Baffling error output attached - has anyone else (Ben? Thibaut?) 
> seen this type of error before? Could it be related to the R version 
> (1.5.1) or ape version (2.1-3) I have installed on that system?
> 
> [...]
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating src/Makevars
> ** libs
> make: `phylobase.so' is up to date.
> ** R
> ** data
> ** inst
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> Loading required package: ape
> Creating a new generic function for "summary" in "phylobase"
> Creating a new generic function for "plot" in "phylobase"
> In method for function "[": expanding the signature to
> include omitted arguments in definition: j = "missing",
> drop = "missing"
> Error in .MakeSignature(new("signature"), def, signature) :
>     the names in signature for method (x, , , ) do not match function's 
> arguments (x, i, j, drop)
> Execution halted
> ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'phylobase'
> ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/phylobase'
> 
> 
> 
> 


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