Thanks for the quick reply. >On 9/29/2006 8:53 AM, Pankaj Savdekar wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I'm trying to build R-2.3.1 on windows, but make gives me following error >>while building pkg-base: >>---------- Making package base ------------ >> adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION >>make[4]: *** [frontmatter] Error 1 >>make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 >>make[2]: *** [pkg-base] Error 2 >>make[1]: *** [rpackage] Error 2 >>make: *** [all] Error 2 >> >>Please note that R.exe, Rterm.exe, Rgui.exe, RCmd.exe are build without >>any errors. >> >>I have three questions, can anyone please help me to resolve it? >>1. How to solve (or get more details) of the above mentioned error? > >You need to look through the make files, to see what was happening. Reading >the messages in reverse order: "make all" called "make rpackage" and so on >to "make frontmatter". The errors don't tell you which makefiles these are >in, but the "frontmatter" target only occurs in src/gnuwin32/MakePkg. You >could try deleting the "@" signs from the lines for that target to see >exactly what was happening when the error was generated.
Yes I could figure out the source of 'frontmatter', but my problem is, there is no error message. I tried 'make -d' too. I tried removing '@', but no change. >I'd guess that this is happening because your build is messed up: the base >package is used in later build steps. If you start from a clean checkout >and just call "make", you probably won't see this. Is there any way to check what could have been wrong in building base package? > >>2. When I run Rterm.exe it takes 25-30% CPU time, but doesn't provide me >>the command prompt, is there anyway to log/trace, to know the issues in >>Rterm? >>3. Despite error mentioned above (Frontmatter) I tried building other >>packages and was able to build few. But still RGui.exe shows warning >>saying there is no package called 'datasets', 'utils' etc. Can someone >>please point me how to resolve this issue? > >Probably the same cause. base is messed up, and that's going to cause all >sorts of trouble. > >Duncan Murdoch >> >>Thanks in advance. >> >>Pankaj >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>PLEASE do read the posting guide >>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.