[Rd] Re: problem posting to r-help list

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You are using the wrong make.  Please read the instructions very carefully.
You _must_ use the cygwin make with the supplied Makefiles. As INSTALL says:

   You will also
   need suitable versions of at least make, sh, rm, sed, (g)awk, mkdir,
   echo, cp, cut, diff, grep, egrep, pwd, expr and cat; we use those from
   the cygwin distribution (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin and
   several mirrors).


> From: Griffith Feeney <gfeeney@hawaii.edu>
> To: wwwadmin@isildur.ci.tuwien.ac.at
> Subject: problem posting to r-help list
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:35:50 -1000
> 
> Attempting to build R-1.0.0 from source I get the following.
> 
> F:\rw1000\src\gnuwin32>make BUILD=MINGW32
> mkdir -p ../../bin
> F:/GCC-29~1.2/BIN/MAKE.EXE -C ./fixed

Note, this is the mingw32 make (which I did not think was in the 
base mingw32 distribution).

> MAKE.EXE[1]: Entering directory `F:/rw1000/src/gnuwin32/fixed'
> MAKE.EXE[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> MAKE.EXE[1]: Leaving directory `F:/rw1000/src/gnuwin32/fixed'
> cp -pr unzip ../..
> rm -f ../../unzip/*.h
> Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
> F:\GCC-29~1.2\BIN\MAKE.EXE: *** [console.d] Error 2
> 
> By way of background, I am running Windows 95 4.00.950 and had, following
> rw1000\src\gnuwin32\install file: 
> 
> 1 installed mingw32 gcc-2.95.2 (MSVCRT) and put gcc-2.95.2\bin in the path;
> 2 installed cygwin user tools and put cygwin-b20\h-i586-cygwin32\bin in the
> path;

Put that ahead of 1 in your path!


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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