On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 1/10/2007 2:29 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >>> Does anybody (most probably the core team) know if there is >>> any difference in how the official 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 binaries are >>> built? >>> >>> Problem is, 2.4.0 loads with the wine (I tried a few recent >>> versions, and also used 2.3.x under wine from time to time), >>> but 2.4.1 won't. >> >> Yes, there were changes to the MinGW run-time library between those two >> releases. See http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/. >> >> If you can be more specific about the problem, it's possible the Wine or >> MinGW people could fix it. > > With 2.4.1, "wine Rgui.exe" launches the main Rgui window, then crashes > and dropped with debug traces without being able to get to the > Rconsole tab. Logically it is a wine "bug", since the same binary > runs under genuine windows, but it looks like it is due to change > from mingw, so I guess I should involve both parties. > > BTW, I am also cross-compiling some R packages with the cross tools provided > by Prof Ripley. Presumably it means that I need to hack away > the bundled mingw stuff in the cross-tool and replaced them with the newer > mingw libraries as well? (the whole thing with wine is so that I can > cross-compile and test right away...)
My belief is that the cross-tools I package build R 2.4.x but need updating for 2.5.0. As I use x86_64 cross tools for R-devel it does not affect me, but I will rebuild the tools on an i386 box in due course. -- 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-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
