On 1/12/2007 12:04 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> >>> I'd like to know one thing though - was there any specific reason for >>> the mingw upgrade after 2.4.0, or was it just a routine >>> latest-is-greatest upgrade? >> >> There are specific requirements: from the CHANGES file >> >> 2.4.0: >> >> mingw-runtime >= 3.10 is required to build R (a bug fix in the handling >> of MBCS code is required). This is enforced by a check in building >> Rpwd.exe. > > Argh... MBCS. I tried running wine with debug on, > ( WINEDEBUG=+relay wine Rgui.exe 2>&1 ) and it shows that just before > 2.4.1/2.5dev crashes, R tried to called strlen() and strchr() on > "Error: invalid multibyte string" in ntdll. > > Call ntdll.strlen(6c9a0a80 "Error: invalid multibyte string\n") ret=6c9150bd > Call ntdll.strchr(00e192e0 "Error: invalid multibyte string\n",0000000a) > ret=6c704ec0
That may be the error people were getting when running 2.4.0 in a Simplified Chinese locale, because one of the translation files had the wrong encoding. See this message in CHANGES: The Simplified Chinese menu messages were in the wrong format, causing RGui to crash on startup. (PR#9277) Duncan Murdoch > > It might be bogus, but the same trace is not found in > WINEDEBUG=+relay wine Rgui.exe 2>&1 > with R 2.4.0 . > > Can I have a svn revision number for the MBCS change please? It > should probably be the first thing I look at, as soon as I get > my cross-compile tools up to date... thanks a lot. > > Hin-Tak > >> >> 2.5.0-to-be: >> >> mingw-runtime >= 3.11 is needed to build R. >> >> [There are multiple reasons, but one is that isblank is missing in >> earlier versions.] >> >> I am almost certain that I have build R 2.4.1 with mingw-runtime 3.10. >> ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
