Hi, Gordon Smyth brought the following problem to my attention.
PROBLEM/"BUG":
Using R v1.9.0 alpha for Windows and the latest Rtools from Brian
Ripley you get the following problem trying to R CMD build a package
(or a bundle);
>R CMD build R.basic
* checking for file 'R.basic/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'R.basic':
* checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO
* use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX'
* removing junk files
* building 'R.basic_0.36.tar.gz'
/cygdrive/C/users/braju.com.R/R.basic/R.basic_0.36.tar: No such file
or directory
TROUBLESHOOTING:
Trying to gzip the tar-file manually (using gzip in B. Ripley's
Rtools) you get the same error;
>gzip /cygdrive/C/users/braju.com.R/R.basic/R.basic_0.36.tar
/cygdrive/C/users/braju.com.R/R.basic/R.basic_0.36.tar: No such file
or directory
HOWEVER, if you do
>cd /cygdrive/C/users/braju.com.R/R.basic/
>gzip R.basic_0.36.tar
it works. This is also the strategy in the R v1.8.1 build script. In
the R v1.9.0 alpha script all gzip calls are on absolute pathnames;
R_system("$tar chf $filepath $pkgname");
R_system("gzip -9f $filepath");
cf.
system("$tar chf $filepath $pkgname");
chdir($startdir);
rmtree($tmpdir);
system("gzip -9f $filename");
Modifying the build v1.9.0 alpha to do the latter things works again.
More hints: Trying different strategies, it looks like gzip has a
problem with /cygdrive/ and/or /cygdrive/C/. It is not clear from
README.packages or README in Rtools if/how gzip has been modified.
Strangely(?) though, putting the tar-file in /tmp/ and doing
>gzip /tmp/R.basic_0.36.tar
works just fine.
Best wishes
Henrik Bengtsson
Dept. of Mathematical Statistics @ Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Lund Institute of Technology/Lund University, Sweden
(Sweden +1h UTC, Melbourne +11 UTC, Calif. -8h UTC)
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h b @ m a t h s . l t h . s e, http://www.maths.lth.se/~hb/
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