For the records: This rsync infelicity has been solved in the meantime.
Uwe Ligges
On 19.01.2012 02:03, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
Hi Uwe,
2012/1/18 Uwe Ligges<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
On 18.01.2012 01:09, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
CRAN Windows binary packages built for R-devel are now online, and Uwe's
winbuilder has gained the ability to check source packages under R-devel.
Windows check results are available from
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/checkSummaryWin.html
and in due course from the main CRAN check page.
There have been a few updates to the toolchain:
(i) It is now based on a beta of gcc 4.6.3, and so reports almost the
same
compilation warnings/errors as the CRAN check machines.
Is the binary R-devel provided by CRAN built against this toolchain?
If it is, should I expect "R --arch x64 CMD config CC" to report
"gcc"? It still reports "x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc" (R-devel 58077).
Actually "gcc -m64" and that is also the case when I just tried yesterday's
CRAN version (which is 58125). I guess you have an older version of R in
your PATH?
I can't seem to download the latest R-devel. When I try and download this file:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-devel-win.exe
and install that, it turns out to be r58077. I've tried with two
different browsers and with curl, and with another CRAN mirror. I
tried this on a fresh machine with no previous R installations or
installer .exes lying around.
The web page
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html
says I should be downloading r58133 but that doesn't seem to be the
case....can you look into this?
Also, I have the latest Rtools installed (VERSION.txt reads "Rtools
version 2.15.0.1911") and it is first on my PATH.
I expect "gcc --version" to report 4.6.3 but it still says 4.5.0.
"x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc --version" reports 4.5.2.
"which gcc" reports "/cygdrive/c/Rtools215/MinGW/bin/gcc".
"which x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc" reports
"/cygdrive/c/Rtools215/MinGW64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc".
Yes, these are the version you need for old versions of R that are included
in the Rtools, but it has a third gcc in subdir gcc-4.6.3 which is the one
you should have first in the path in order to use the new toolchain.
Good, I did not know about this directory. I will put it first in my
PATH after I am able to get a recent R-devel binary.
Thanks,
Dan
Uwe Ligges
(ii) There are various bug-fixes to the toolchain: notably x^n and exp(x)
use gradual underflow to denormal numbers rather than abrubtly
underflowing
to zero.
(iii) This is a 'multilib' toolchain: the compiler is named 'gcc.exe' for
both architectures, selected by flag -m32 (the default) and -m64.
Looks like to check gcc versions I should (instead of what I do above)
do simply "gcc --version". I imagine that "gcc -m32 --version" would
report the same thing as "gcc -m64 --version".
Thanks,
Dan
On 29/11/2011 07:56, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
An updated toolchain is now being used for Windows' builds of R-devel:
details are in the R-admin manual and at
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ and
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/
Both 32- and 64-bit parts of the toolchain use v2.0.1 of the Mingw-w64
project's runtime and a beta of gcc 4.5.4: the Mingw.org project's
builds are no longer used. This should mean that code which compiles for
64-bit Windows also compiles for 32-bit Windows, and v.v. unless code
makes (incorrect but common) assumptions that pointers fit into longs.
A very few packages will need modifications because they contain
declarations which clash with the headers in this toolchain: where we
are aware of problems the maintainers have been informed.
At DLL level different Windows' toolchains should be compatible: at C
level they mostly are but at C++ level they are pretty much incompatible
(so that for example GDAL has to be re-compiled for every toolchain: and
Rcpp users need to be careful to use only one toolchain for Rcpp and
their packages). All the external software previously made available
(and more) is made available at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools .
The toolchain has support for OpenMP and pthreads: however OpenMP
support is not enabled by default in R (it is too slow to be much use).
If you do make use of it in your packages, be aware that you will need
to ship the appropriate pthreads DLL(s).
It is expected that there will be several further minor updates prior to
the release of 2.15.0 in ca 4 months, but this step is the major one.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
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
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