[R] Cross-compiling R packages

[Laurent Gautier]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:23:26AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Laurent Gautier wrote:
> 
> > I tried to use the 'make' file discussed in the last R-news.
> > 
> > The step 'make R' dies with:
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/laurent/these/R/RCrossBuild/WinR/R-1.7.1/src/gnuwin32'
> > sed -e s/@RVER@/`cut -d' ' -f1 ../../VERSION | sed -n 1p`/g -e s/@RWVER@/rw1071/g rw-FAQ.texi | \
> >   makeinfo --no-headers --number-sections -o rw-FAQ
> > makeinfo --no-split --html --no-headers --number-sections -o tmp.html tmp.texi
> > tidy tmp.html > tmp2.html 2> /dev/null
> > make[2]: [fixed/html/rw-FAQ.html] Error 127 (ignored)
> > *** tidy appears to be non-functional ***
> > make[2]: *** [fixed/html/rw-FAQ.html] Error 111
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/laurent/these/R/RCrossBuild/WinR/R-1.7.1/src/gnuwin32'
> > make[1]: *** [docfiles] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/laurent/these/R/RCrossBuild/WinR/R-1.7.1/src/gnuwin32'
> > 
> > 
> > Any hint ?
> 
> Well, you are missing `tidy', from http://tidy.sourceforge.net/, as 
> mentioned in the src/gnuwin32/INSTALL file.
> 
> I don't see what the `make' file in the last R-news has to do with this: 
> all the support for cross-compiling R is in the base R distribution.
> Credit where credit is due!

You might see what the 'make' file has to do after checking
the pages 15, 16 and 17 of R-news dated June 2003. My email reports
an error encountered while following the steps detailed there. 



L.