On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I usually compile R-devel tarball every few days (just to check if I can do > it and check for any compile errors). As of two days ago, I am receiving > the following error: > > ... > gcc -O3 -I. -DWIN32 -D_X86_ -c xdr_mem.c -o xdr_mem.o > ar crs libxdr.a xdr.o xdr_float.o xdr_stdio.o xdr_mem.o > make: *** ../extra/trio: No such file or directory. Stop. > make[3]: *** [rlibs] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [../../bin/R.dll] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [rbuild] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andyj/R-devel/src/gnuwin32' > make: *** [distribution] Error 2 > > Looking at the Makefile in R-devel/src/gnuwin32 reveals that it wants to > compile a library libtrio.a, but sources for it are missing from the > R-devel/src/extra directory. > > I am on the Win2000 machine with all the necessary tools installed and up > to date (I just compiled 2.3.0-patched dated 4-24). I checked the > "Building R for Windows" site and there is no mention there of anything > called trio. The latest version of 2.4.0 I tried is r37919 dated 4-24. > > This of course is of no great urgency for me as I do not use the R-devel > version for "real work". I am just curious what libtrio is good for.
See the src/gnuwin32/CHANGES, and get the R-devel sources from SVN if you want to test this: it is still experimental and not yet in the tarballs. -- 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