[R] R-1.5.0: compiling package foreign on WinNT failed

[Liaw, Andy]

Thanks very much to Prof. Ripley and Tom Stockton.  Yes, adding `.' to PATH
solved the problem.  It is mentioned in INSTALL in *two* places.  Apologies
for not reading it carefully.

In addition, Prof. Ripley suggests:
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Replacing in MakePkg

sh -c configure.win

by

sh ${SPKG}/configure.win

seems to work even if . is not in the path.
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Thanks again,
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:12 AM
> To: Liaw, Andy
> Cc: 'R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
> Subject: Re: [R] R-1.5.0: compiling package foreign on WinNT failed
> 
> 
> My best guess is that you don't have `.' in your path.  That is a new
> instruction for 1.5.0 (see the INSTALL file).
> 
> People building this themselves need to be aware that lots of packages
> need to be rebuilt for rw1050. I will not update CRAN contrib area
> until binaries are released: until then see the rw1050 directory. Even
> then, update.packages() will not pull rebuilt versions, only updated
> packages.
> 
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> 
> > Dear R-help,
> >
> > I was able to build R-1.5.0 on WinNT w/o problem (actually 
> it seems easier
> > than previous version).  However, I encountered problem 
> when trying to
> > compile the recommended package foreign:
> >
> > make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/g/rbuild/R-1.5.0/src/gnuwin32'
> > make DLLNM=  FLIBS="-lg2c -lRblas" BUILD=MINGW \
> >   -C G:/Rbuild/R-1.5.0-recommended/R.INSTALL/foreign PKG=foreign
> > RHOME=g:/rbuild
> > /R-1.5.0 RLIB=g:/rbuild/R-1.5.0/library \
> >   -f g:/rbuild/R-1.5.0/src/gnuwin32/MakePkg
> > make[1]: Entering directory
> > `/cygdrive/g/Rbuild/R-1.5.0-recommended/R.INSTALL/fo
> > reign'
> > ---------- Making package foreign ------------
> > configure.win: not found
> > make[1]: *** [g:/rbuild/R-1.5.0/library/foreign/zzzz] Error 127
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > `/cygdrive/g/Rbuild/R-1.5.0-recommended/R.INSTALL/for
> > eign'
> > make: *** [pkg-foreign] Error 2
> > make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/g/rbuild/R-1.5.0/src/gnuwin32'
> > *** Installation of foreign failed ***
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?  configure.win is 
> there, and all it
> > does is copying two files in src from .h.in to .h.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
> >
> >
> > 
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