On 3/10/09, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > > Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > > > Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On my windows (xp) machine with Rtools29 (excluding cygwin dlls as I > > > > have cygwin on my path) -make all recommended- for the latest R-devel > > > > tarball (svn revision: 48093) fails when trying to build the > > > > recommended packages: > > > > > > > 1. Have you asked make rsync-recommended before (i.e. are the packages > > > actually there)?
No, I did not run make rsync-recommended. I never had to before when building from a tarball. And, yes, the packages were there (both .tar.gz and .tgz but not .ts). But as Peter points out below, the symlinks were probably corrupted. > > > 2. If so, please install the cygwin dlls and try to remove cygwin from > > > your path. The may very well be some version conflicts in I cannot build > > > R / R packages if a full cygwin installation is around. I did install them but they looked identical to the ones I have from cygwin. So I removed them before building. > > > Uwe Ligges > > > > This bit apjaworski last week, but the naughty boy didn't include > > R-devel in the discussion.... > > > > It boils down to problems with symlink handling. You unpack the tar file > > and the .tgz links look like ordinary files with strange contents to > > other tools. > > > > The workaround is to run > > > > make Rpwd.exe > > make link-recommended > > > > (or, maybe, to unpack with a different tar version, but I really don't > > know). Many thanks for this. Once I run these two, -make all recommended- and -make check- completes as expected (still with cygwin on my path). So when you say "workaround", is there something wrong with my tools or the tarball or ...? > Ah, sure, thanks, I always build from svn sources and hence say > > make rsync-recommended > make recommended > > If you omit > make rsync-recommended > you will need at least > make link-recommended > which is in fact the same but without the rsync step. [...] When I last built R-devel from the tarball on windows (when Rtools29 was identical to Rtools28), -make all recommended- as given in the R-admin manual "just worked". So I did not think of running these additional makes. (The R-admin manual does say to run make link-recommended if you are not using the tarball.) By the way, I noticed that -make all recommended- still builds the CHM help files for certain packages (e.g. Matrix) even though I set USE_CHM=FALSE in MkRules. Is this expected? Thanks for all your help. h. -- +--- | Hiroyuki Kawakatsu | Business School, Dublin City University | Dublin 9, Ireland. Tel +353 (0)1 700 7496 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
