On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Gorjanc Gregor wrote: > Hello! > > I have just read mails in thread > > <http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/04a/0583.html> > > about problems with Cygwin and Rtools. I had the same problems and kept > just the newest cygwin1.dll and things seem OK now. However I > currently hit the problem with Perl (I have ActiveState and Cygwin Perl > installed). When I tried to work with 'Rdconv' in Cygwin I get the following: > > $ R CMD Rdconv --help > Can't locate R/Rdconv.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > c \Programs\R\rw2011beta\share\perl; /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) at c:\Programs\R\rw2011beta/bin/Rdconv > line 25. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:\Programs\R\rw2011beta/bin/Rdconv line > 25. > > As far as I understand there is a problem since Cygwins perl does not > have things properly setup. I did not touch anything yet. But I can see the > problem in first entry of @INC. There should be /cygdrive/c/.. or c:/ (I do > not know if the last one actually works with Cygwins perl) and therefore > things are broken.
The problem is earlier: the path separator is ; on Windows and : on Cygwin. > If I modified PATH such that ActiveState Perl was before Cygwins Perl, > everyting was as expected. > > Is there a way to overcome this with Cygwins Perl? No. It is very clearly documented that a Windows Perl is required. -- 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
