I have a problem when building R from source on Windows XP. When I get to 3.1.3 of the Installation and Administration manual and try make all recommended from R_HOME it fails with make: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
I am pretty sure there is an obvious and well documented thing I am missing, but missing it I am. Any clues? Is my problem that I have a Makefile.in but not a Makefile? Have I understood section 3.1.3 correctly that no ./configure step is needed? Although my reading of the I&A manual is that no ./configure step is needed under Windows, I did wonder and tried running sh ./configure but that failed with chmod: not found chmod: not found chmod: not found configure: error: cannot create configure.lineno; rerun with a POSIX shell make is GNU make 3.79.1; I don't know how to identify which sh it is but it is the one in the Rtools\bin directory. I having downloaded all the tools listed in Appendix E (save InnoSetup) and installed them and set my path to be: PATH=c:\Rtools\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\progra~1\htmhe~1;C:\Progr am Files\MiKTeX 2.6\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System3 2\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
