[R] Building R from source

[Prof Brian Ripley]

We have seen one other report of this (from someone cross-compiling) but 
cannot reproduce it, and pcre_dfa.exec.o should not be being linked in.

Please do check against the R-admin manual (the definitive source) that 
you have the same versions of tools as recommended.  It looks like this is 
a bug in some version of ld.exe (from binutils).

A possible workaround is to edit src/extra/pcre/Makefile.win and remove 
pcre_dfa_exec.c from CSOURCES.  Then delete libpcre.a, and try making 
again.  But if you have a buggy ld.exe, I would want to use a non-buggy 
one.

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, YONGWAN CHUN wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I was trying to build R from source on Windows XP. I installed software 
> which are mentioned from the follow web page 
> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ (Last accessed on Nov. 13th, 
> 2006) . Unfortunately, I got error messages whenever I run 'make all 
> recommended' without modifying 'MkRules' file. I have removed software 
> and reinstalled them several times but I still failed to get it done. 
> The below message is what I got.
>
> If anybody gives information, I would appreciate it very much.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yongwan
>
> =======================
> D:\Rsource\R-2.4.0\src\gnuwin32>make all recommended
> make[1]: `Rpwd.exe' is up to date.
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `svnonly'.
> installing C headers
> make[2]: `all' is up to date.
> make[2]: `libRblas.dll.a' is up to date.
> make[5]: Nothing to be done for `svnonly'.
> installing C headers
> make --no-print-directory -C ../extra/intl -f Makefile.win
> make --no-print-directory -C ../appl  OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99' FOPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall' -f Makefile.win
> make --no-print-directory -C ../nmath OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99' -f Makefile.win
> make --no-print-directory -C ../main  OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -DLEA_MALLOC' FFLAGS='-O3 -Wall' -f Makef
> ile.win
> make --no-print-directory -C ./graphapp OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99'
> make --no-print-directory -C ./getline OPTFLAGS='-O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99'
> make[4]: `gl.a' is up to date.
> make -f Makefile.win chartables.h
> make[5]: `chartables.h' is up to date.
> make -f Makefile.win makeMakedeps
> make -f Makefile.win libpcre.a
> make[5]: `libpcre.a' is up to date.
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> gcc  -shared -s -mwindows -o R.dll R.def console.o dataentry.o dynload.o edit.o editor.o embeddedR.o extra.o opt.o pager
> .o preferences.o psignal.o rhome.o rui.o run.o shext.o sys-win32.o system.o e_pow.o malloc.o ../main/libmain.a ../appl/l
> ibappl.a ../nmath/libnmath.a graphapp/ga.a getline/gl.a ../extra/xdr/libxdr.a ../extra/zlib/libz.a ../extra/pcre/libpcre
> .a ../extra/bzip2/libbz2.a ../extra/intl/libintl.a ../extra/trio/libtrio.a dllversion.o -L. -lg2c -lRblas -lcomctl32 -lv
> ersion
> ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x15f9): undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop'
> ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x1639): undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop'
> ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x1736): undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop'
> ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x1770): undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop'
> ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x184d): undefined reference to `_pcre_ucp_findprop'
> ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a(pcre_dfa_exec.o):pcre_dfa_exec.c:(.text+0x1e0f): more undefined references to `_pcre_ucp_findpro
> p' follow
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [R.dll] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [../../bin/R.dll] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [rbuild] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
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