[Rd] some problems with r 1.5.0 on win2k

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Erich Neuwirth wrote:

> i managed to build r-devel 1.5.0 on win2k
>
> during the build, i experienced the following problems:
>
>
> 1. Failure in make when starting from scratch
> make in src/gnuwin fails at the first run because it tries to use
> Rpwd.exe. It does, however, create Rpwd.exe before it fails.
> Copying Rpwd.exe to a directory on the path the allows
> a complete pass through make.

On all my machines its makes Rpwd.exe, and then spawns a separate make
which proceeds.  It should not fail.

> 3. Warning when building docs
> D:\Work\R-devel\doc\manual>make -f Makefile.win info
> makeinfo  -D UseExternalXrefs R-FAQ.texi
> makeinfo  -D UseExternalXrefs R-admin.texi
> makeinfo  -D UseExternalXrefs R-data.texi
> makeinfo  -D UseExternalXrefs R-exts.texi
> makeinfo  -D UseExternalXrefs R-intro.texi
> R-intro.texi:781: warning: Info cannot handle `:' in index entry `:'.
> makeinfo  -D UseExternalXrefs R-lang.texi

That's an incorrect warning from makeinfo 4.1.

> 4. after installation:
> Help -> R language (html)
> starts mozilla 0.9.9 (which is the default browser on this machine),
> but when i go to the search page and enter a search term,
> the browser does NOT jump to any other page, it stays on the search
> page.

That has worked for me, but I took that browser off as it was too flaky.

> p.s.:
> gnuwin32/INSTALL
> tells one to send messages to
> R-windows@r-project.org
> but mail sent there bounces

Well, it may work by release time.  The request to set up the address has
been made.

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