Re: [Rd] Windows 64bit package build requires underscore hack?

2010-07-06 Thread Jay Emerson
I had a problem like this for a while with bigmemory et. al... the check went through to the very end, including successfully building the man pages, then a number of shells popped up and the process died as described here. The build was successful. We never did figure out exactly why, but are

[Rd] Windows 64bit package build requires underscore hack?

2010-07-05 Thread Dominick Samperi
Hello, After much tinkering I managed to build packages using the 64bit version of R with the help of hints from http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ and http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/Win64/W64porting.html and R-admin Manual. But a hack was required, and this seems to be related to a

Re: [Rd] Windows 64bit package build requires underscore hack?

2010-07-05 Thread Dominick Samperi
To be more precise, while the build process worked, the check did not. When it got to the point * checking for portable compilation flags in Makevars ... a number of shells popped up (to run c:\Rtools\sh.exe) and the process died. This happens with Rcpp and cxxPack on an AMD machine running