Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> I'd like to know one thing though - was there any specific reason for >> the mingw upgrade after 2.4.0, or was it just a routine >> latest-is-greatest upgrade? > > There are specific requirements: from the CHANGES file > > 2.4.0: > > mingw-runtime >= 3.10 is required to build R (a bug fix in the handling > of MBCS code is required). This is enforced by a check in building > Rpwd.exe.
Argh... MBCS. I tried running wine with debug on, ( WINEDEBUG=+relay wine Rgui.exe 2>&1 ) and it shows that just before 2.4.1/2.5dev crashes, R tried to called strlen() and strchr() on "Error: invalid multibyte string" in ntdll. Call ntdll.strlen(6c9a0a80 "Error: invalid multibyte string\n") ret=6c9150bd Call ntdll.strchr(00e192e0 "Error: invalid multibyte string\n",0000000a) ret=6c704ec0 It might be bogus, but the same trace is not found in WINEDEBUG=+relay wine Rgui.exe 2>&1 with R 2.4.0 . Can I have a svn revision number for the MBCS change please? It should probably be the first thing I look at, as soon as I get my cross-compile tools up to date... thanks a lot. Hin-Tak > > 2.5.0-to-be: > > mingw-runtime >= 3.11 is needed to build R. > > [There are multiple reasons, but one is that isblank is missing in > earlier versions.] > > I am almost certain that I have build R 2.4.1 with mingw-runtime 3.10. > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
