On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Michael Hoehle wrote:
> To R-devel,
>
> I am currently writing a package with R 2.2.1 under Windows using
> cygwin and the recommended Rtools. Physically my package ist hosted on
> the Drive z: .
>
> When I call Rcmd.exe build ?-binary for my package I have a problem
> with the "build" script in $R_HOME/bin/. Starting on line 226 the code
> is as follows:
>
> if($WINDOWS) {
> ## workaround for paths in Cygwin tar
> $filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-x]):+/cygdrive/\1+;
> }
>
> Is there a particular reason that only lower case letter from a-x are
> handled? As my drive is z: I would like the workaround to work for
> lower case letters a-z.
So edit the file and it should work. (Something is a little strange, as
Windows has drive letters in upper case.)
You may need to edit check as well as build.
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