Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
R developers,
I've been happily building packages, under windows, for some time now
and upgraded to R 2.1.0 and now when I attempt to build a package, I get
the following errors...
C:\conifersrcmd build Rconifers
* checking for file 'Rconifers/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'Rconifers':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* cleaning src
* checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... OK
* removing junk files
/cygdrive/C/conifers/Rconifers_0.0-3.tar
tar: /cygdrive/C/conifers/Rconifers_0.0-3.tar: Cannot open: No such file
or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: /cygdrive/C/conifers/Rconifers_0.0-3.tar: Cannot open: No such file
or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Error: cannot open file 'Rconifers/DESCRIPTION' for reading
C:\conifers
When I attempt to create a tar archive by hand, it seems to work just
fine (the creation of the tar file that is). So I thought I check out
the build script to see where the problem was (not that I knew how to
change it.. but it never hurts to look). I found the following lines:
my $filename = ${pkgname}_ . $description-{Version} . .tar;
my $filepath = file_path($startdir, $filename);
## under Windows, need separate Cygwin and Windows versions of path.
my $origfilepath = $filepath;
if($WINDOWS) {
## workaround for paths in Cygwin tar
$filepath =~ s+^([A-Za-x]):+/cygdrive/\1+;
}
Jeff, is this the recent version of MinGW, Perl and the tools?
And I'm not sure why that's in there. Aren't packages that are built
under Windows using the Mingw and MSYS tools exclusively? Should they?
Could they?
Yes, MinGW, and the tools which are based on some cygwin sources, AFAIK.
But you must not have any other cygwin directory in your path.
As you can see from the Windows binary package section on CRAN, building
packages works perfectly well for us.
If it still does not work for you, you might want to start from scratch
by cleaning up your path and following the instructions given in the R
Installation and Administration manual.
Uwe
I'm not sure how to fix this and for now, I'll have to revert back to
the older version of R (Mongo not happy) so I can continue my work, but
I'd like to know either how to fix this, or if it's a problem with my
machine's configuration or the package build process under newer
versions of R. I see there's a new verion on the horizon and I want to
get my building working under it as soon as possible.
I do have all the required tools (mingw, cygwin, etc.) in the correct
place to build packages under the older version... what's changed?
Thanks,
Jeff.
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Jeff D. Hamann
Forest Informatics, Inc.
PO Box 1421
Corvallis, Oregon USA 97339-1421
541-754-1428
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.forestinformatics.com
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