[R] build failed of package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> Looks like you are trying to install source tarball on Windows without
> the relevant toolset (compiler, etc)?

To save further hassle, rpvm is not going to build on Windows 
unless you have PVM installed and working on Windows.

If that is the case, this looks like the use of the wrong make, with the 
wrong shell (that message is coming from a Windows shell, not sh.exe). 
Do see the warnings in README.packages about the MinGW make.

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:11:34 -0800 (PST), Lars Schouw
> <schouwla at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to install the rpvm package doing this:
>>
>> C:\R\rw2000\bin>rcmd install rpvm_0.6-2.tar.gz
>>
>> '.' is not recognized as an internal or external
>> command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>> '.' is not recognized as an internal or external
>> command,
>> operable program or batch file.
>> make: *** /rpvm: No such file or directory.  Stop.
>> make: *** [pkg-rpvm] Error 2
>> *** Installation of rpvm failed ***
>>
>> Removing 'C:/R/rw2000/library/rpvm'
>>
>> What does this error message tell me?


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