On Windows, > Sys.getenv("MAKE") MAKE ""
when (at a DOS prompt) X:>set MAKE Environment variable MAKE not defined On linux, > Sys.getenv("MAKE") MAKE "make" even when (in a shell) % echo $MAKE returns nothing. This has consequences, e.g., in buildVignette where system(Sys.getenv("MAKE")) dutifully does nothing on Windows, but evaluates the vignette Makefile on linux. > sessionInfo() R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-06-08 r38315) i386-pc-mingw32 > sessionInfo() R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-05-25 r38197) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Martin -- Bioconductor ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel