[Rd] Crash from windres in WinME

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> From: murdoch@stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:43:41 -0500
> 
> In preparation for doing a bit more work on RStreams, I installed the
> recommended Windows tools to compile R.  When the makefile got to a
> line calling "windres" (a resource compiler?), it crashed, and left
> WinME unstable (even more than usually!).  Windres is one of the GNU
> binutils, so I installed the newest build, but got the same crash.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this particular problem before elsewhere, and
> knows a workaround, or is this just one more reason not to use WinME?

Neither NT4 nor 98SE give me any problems.

Brian

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._