This is another of those things which is not yet finished (you will
see mention of the removed cross-building scripts in the relevant
Makefile.win).
Expect it to work from the tarball before GFF in 10 day's time.
There's another intermittent problem with dependencies in the current
sources that I will commit a fix for shortly.
Geberally, you should not necessarily expect R to build on Windows
from snapshots tarballs prior to GFF: use svn+rsync (as that is what
the developers use).
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:
On 3/10/09, Uwe Ligges wrote:
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Uwe Ligges wrote:
Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:
Hi,
On my windows (xp) machine with Rtools29 (excluding cygwin dlls as I
have cygwin on my path) -make all recommended- for the latest R-devel
tarball (svn revision: 48093) fails when trying to build the
recommended packages:
1. Have you asked make rsync-recommended before (i.e. are the packages
actually there)?
No, I did not run make rsync-recommended. I never had to before when
building from a tarball. And, yes, the packages were there (both
.tar.gz and .tgz but not .ts). But as Peter points out below, the
symlinks were probably corrupted.
2. If so, please install the cygwin dlls and try to remove cygwin from
your path. The may very well be some version conflicts in I cannot build
R / R packages if a full cygwin installation is around.
I did install them but they looked identical to the ones I have from
cygwin. So I removed them before building.
Uwe Ligges
This bit apjaworski last week, but the naughty boy didn't include
R-devel in the discussion....
It boils down to problems with symlink handling. You unpack the tar file
and the .tgz links look like ordinary files with strange contents to
other tools.
The workaround is to run
make Rpwd.exe
make link-recommended
(or, maybe, to unpack with a different tar version, but I really don't
know).
Many thanks for this. Once I run these two, -make all recommended- and
-make check- completes as expected (still with cygwin on my path). So
when you say "workaround", is there something wrong with my tools or
the tarball or ...?
Ah, sure, thanks, I always build from svn sources and hence say
make rsync-recommended
make recommended
If you omit
make rsync-recommended
you will need at least
make link-recommended
which is in fact the same but without the rsync step.
[...]
When I last built R-devel from the tarball on windows (when Rtools29
was identical to Rtools28), -make all recommended- as given in the
R-admin manual "just worked". So I did not think of running these
additional makes. (The R-admin manual does say to run make
link-recommended if you are not using the tarball.)
By the way, I noticed that -make all recommended- still builds the CHM
help files for certain packages (e.g. Matrix) even though I set
USE_CHM=FALSE in MkRules. Is this expected?
Thanks for all your help.
h.
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