Hello. This is a question for which in the past I would have reached out directly to Tomas first, but sadly that is no longer possible.
I have been building R on Windows for well over twenty years now, with all the headaches that invariably entails. Currently, I am on Windows 11 and use Rtools45. Starting April 1, I have found that when building R on my corporate laptop, the entire compilation simply freezes once the "recommended" portion of "make distribution" starts. Base R and the inherent packages (parallel, stats, etc.) all build beautifully—and even OpenBLAS builds in properly—but once building MASS starts, it freezes at the third invocation, building the DLL. I know this is not a toolchain issue, because on my home computer the entire build finishes flawlessly and passes "make check-all". This is true for both trunk (devel) and R-4-6-branch. I follow the directions at the howto [1] and that supports it not being an internet access issue, as the svn pull and "make rsync-recommended" both complete properly. There is clearly something in the corporate environment which is interfering. However, neither I nor the IT department have any idea WHAT it may be. The folder in which I build is specifically exempt from the standard corporate security policies AND we tried turning off ALL Windows exploit protections and the problem still exists. Would anyone have an idea as to why everything works for "make all" and "make cairodevices" but would cause Rtools45 to freeze during "make recommended" in a Windows environment? Thank you, Avi [1] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/howto-R-4.6.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
