On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aha-- thanks! > > >> Or I've > >> gotten my wires crossed... > > > >The latter. Try commenting out > > > ># path (possibly full path) to same version of R on the host system > ># R_EXE=R > >^^ > > > >in MkRules. It's uncommented there from experiments with > >cross-compiling. > >Works for me. > > Yes, it's just worked for me too. Is it worth mentioning this in the > INSTALL file after the sentence that says "IMPORTANT: edit MkRules to > set the appropriate paths..."? [It may be that all my builds hitherto > have actually invoked an earlier version of R than the one being built, > but that this never mattered before.]
It's new in R-devel (part of the attempt to make cross-building more maintainable). It's a mistake in the archive and it will be commented out come the final release barring snafus. > >> So it looks like either (i) the documentation should be > >changed to tell > >> the user to reset the path manually (and NB the dot isn't useful for > >> Windows 2000), > > > >It was when I ran Windows 2000. What's wrong for you? > > Just that, at the moment of running "make", the dot refers to > src\gnuwin32, which doesn't pick up the R.exe file. With the > commenting-out above, "make" now works fine for me now whether or not > PATH starts with a dot. [I thought MS-DOS implicitly put a dot in, i.e. > doesn't it always look for EXEs and BATs in the current directory > first?] I think I need to start the path with <<current-R-version>>\bin > rather than dot. The shell is not often `MS-DOS' (command.com): e.g. I use tcsh, DJM uses bash and Windows Xp uses cmd.exe. The first two do not look in the current directory by default, and so do need `.' in the path to find e.g. Rpwd.exe. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
