Dear Prof. Ripley,
Finally, I succeeded in building R from source. I just changed WINHELP part in 'MkRules' file from WINHELP = CHM to WINHELP = NO. Then R was built successfully. Thank you so much. Yongwan Chun ----- Original Message ----- From: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:01 am Subject: Re: [R] Building R from source > We have seen one other report of this (from someone cross- > compiling) but > cannot reproduce it, and pcre_dfa.exec.o should not be being > linked in. > > Please do check against the R-admin manual (the definitive source) > that > you have the same versions of tools as recommended. It looks like > this is > a bug in some version of ld.exe (from binutils). > > A possible workaround is to edit src/extra/pcre/Makefile.win and > remove > pcre_dfa_exec.c from CSOURCES. Then delete libpcre.a, and try > making > again. But if you have a buggy ld.exe, I would want to use a non- > buggy > one. > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, YONGWAN CHUN wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I was trying to build R from source on Windows XP. I installed > software > > which are mentioned from the follow web page > > http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ (Last accessed on Nov. > 13th, > > 2006) . Unfortunately, I got error messages whenever I run 'make > all > > recommended' without modifying 'MkRules' file. I have removed > software > > and reinstalled them several times but I still failed to get it > done. > > The below message is what I got. > > > > If anybody gives information, I would appreciate it very much. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Yongwan > > > > ======================= > > D:\Rsource\R-2.4.0\src\gnuwin32>make all recommended > > make[1]: `Rpwd.exe' is up to date. > > make[4]: Nothing to be done for `svnonly'. > > installing C headers > > make[2]: `all' is up to date. > > make[2]: `libRblas.dll.a' is up to date. > > make[5]: Nothing to be done for `svnonly'. > > installing C headers > > make --no-print-directory -C ../extra/intl -f Makefile.win > > make --no-print-directory -C ../appl OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall - > pedantic -std=gnu99' FOPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall' -f Makefile.win > > make --no-print-directory -C ../nmath OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall - > pedantic -std=gnu99' -f Makefile.win > > make --no-print-directory -C ../main OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall - > pedantic -std=gnu99 -DLEA_MALLOC' FFLAGS='-O3 -Wall' -f Makef > > ile.win > > make --no-print-directory -C ./graphapp OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall - > pedantic -std=gnu99' > > make --no-print-directory -C ./getline OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall - > pedantic -std=gnu99' > > make[4]: `gl.a' is up to date. > > make -f Makefile.win chartables.h > > make[5]: `chartables.h' is up to date. > > make -f Makefile.win makeMakedeps > > make -f Makefile.win libpcre.a > > make[5]: `libpcre.a' is up to date. > > make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. > > make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. > > gcc -shared -s -mwindows -o R.dll R.def console.o dataentry.o > dynload.o edit.o editor.o embeddedR.o extra.o opt.o pager > > .o preferences.o psignal.o rhome.o rui.o run.o shext.o sys- > win32.o system.o e_pow.o malloc.o ../main/libmain.a ../appl/l > > ibappl.a ../nmath/libnmath.a graphapp/ga.a getline/gl.a > ../extra/xdr/libxdr.a ../extra/zlib/libz.a ../extra/pcre/libpcre > > .a ../extra/bzip2/libbz2.a ../extra/intl/libintl.a > ../extra/trio/libtrio.a dllversion.o -L. -lg2c -lRblas -lcomctl32 -lv > > ersion > > > ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x15f9): > undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop' > > > ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x1639): > undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop' > > > ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x1736): > undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop' > > > ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x1770): > undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop' > > > ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x184d): > undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop' > > > ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x1e0f): more > undefined references to `_pcre_ucp_findpro > > p' follow > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make[3]: *** [R.dll] Error 1 > > make[2]: *** [../../bin/R.dll] Error 2 > > make[1]: *** [rbuild] Error 2 > > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] 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. > > > > -- > 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-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
