[Rd] Re: [R] Rcmd SHLIB problem

[Liaw, Andy]

> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]
> 
> The answer seems to be: make sure you are using the tools in a current
> tools.zip.  Neither Andy nor Uwe were.  Both the version of 
> make.exe and
> cygwin1.dll are critical.
> 
> It's also wise to have a fairly recent version of Perl (628 
> or later), as
> some earlier ones made errors in calls to system() (as used in Rcmd
> SHLIB) on Win 9x.

Indeed.  The cygwin1.dll I have in c:\cygwin\bin has date stamp later than
the one in Rtools.zip, and that's the problem.  Taking c:\cygwin\bin out of
the PATH solved the problem.  I don't remember why I had \cygwin\bin in the
PATH.  The default setup for bash adds the needed directories to the path
anyway.

Thanks very much to Prof. Ripley and Uwe Ligges for the help!!

Regards,
Andy 

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