[Rd] R-devel (1.7 to be) on windows XP

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

Kjetil,

You are sending a long report about your inexperience: most of this is no
different from the last few R versions.  We *do* actually check that
R-devel builds on Windows during feature freeze, so please start with the
assumption that problems are with your installation or mis-reading of the
instructions.

Brian

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:

> I'm trying to make r-devel on windows XP. I downloaded an hour ago
> R-1.7.0beta_2003-03-30.tar.gz
> make terminates without any error messages, with 
> make check I get error messages from tests of internet and 
> socket functions, surely because my modem was not 
> connected (It doesn't say in the documentation (file INSTALL)
> that internet must be connected under make check.)

And you only get warnings, not actual errors, BTW, so the Internet does
*not* need to be connected!  And make check does finish, I bet.
 
> But the file base-Ex.Rout has as last line
> quit('no'), which I take to mean the rest of the checks went 
> well?

No, it means base checked correctly: it is the first check, not the last 
one.

> make in directory \bitmap went without error messages, 
> (but I had to say just make and not make bitmapdll as INSTALL says.)

INSTALL says to do make bitmapdll in src/gnuwin32, not in bitmap, and 
bitmap/INSTALL says to do make.  As in:

    If everything is set up in directory bitmap,

    	make bitmapdll

    will work from this directory.
    	      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    
Both pieces of documentation are correct, but your assertions are not.


> Then, after installing the files from R_Tcl.zip using unzip from the 
> tools collection:
> 
> C:\R\R17beta\R-1.7.0\src\gnuwin32>make tcl
> make tcl
> 
> ---------- Making package tcltk ------------
>   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>   making DLL ...
> gcc  -IC:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/src/include -Wall -O2 -I "C:/R/R17beta/R-
> 1.7.0/Tcl"/include -DWin32  -c tcltk.c -o tcltk.o
> In file included from tcltk.c:3:
> C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/tcl.h:2275:26: tclPlatDecls.h: No 
> such file or directory
> In file included from C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/tk.h:96,
>                  from tcltk.c:4:
> C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/X11/Xlib.h:48:28: X11/Xfuncproto.h: 
> No such file or directory
> C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/X11/Xlib.h:1205:28: 
> tkIntXlibDecls.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/tk.h:96,
>                  from tcltk.c:4:
> C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/X11/Xlib.h:1207: parse error before 
> "_XFUNCPROTOEND"
> In file included from tcltk.c:4:
> C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/tk.h:120: syntax error before 
> "typedef"
> make[3]: *** [tcltk.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [src/tcltk.dll] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [pkg-tcltk] Error 2
> make: *** [tcl] Error 2
> 
> ???

The files mentioned as not found *are* in Tcl/include in that zip file.  
Please compare C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl with the contents of the zip file
(and perhaps compare the zip file with that on the master site).

> Then
> 
> make recommended
> 
> Warning messages: 
> 1: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/clogit.Rd' 
> 2: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/colon.Rd' 
> 3: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/heart.Rd' 
> 4: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/kidney.Rd' 
> 5: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/ovarian.Rd' 
> 6: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/rats.Rd' 
> 7: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/stanford2.Rd' 
> 8: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/survival-internal.Rd' 
> 9: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
> 1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/survreg.control.Rd' 
>   zipping data
> .
> .
> .
> stataread.c: In function `R_LoadStataData':
> stataread.c:144: warning: `labeltable' might be used uninitialized in 
> this function
> ar cr foreign.a *.o
> .
> .
> .
> grid.c: In function `L_text':
> grid.c:1043: warning: `bounds' might be used uninitialized in this 
> function
> .
> .
> .
> gcc   -IC:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/src/include -Wall -O2   -c unit.c -o 
> unit.o
> unit.c: In function `pureNullUnitArithmetic':
> unit.c:279: warning: `result' might be used uninitialized in this 
> function
> 
> and no more warnings, and no errors. Are this warnings expected?

Yes.  We are not responsible for the infelicities in contributed packages.

> 
> 
> Then
> make check-recommended
> 
> runs without giving any errors.
> 
> Then
> 
> C:\R\R17beta\R-1.7.0\src\gnuwin32>make docs
> make docs
> collecting LaTeX docs for package `base' ...
>       6 [main] sh 2396 proc_subproc: Couldn't duplicate my 
> handle<0x7D8> for pid 0, Win32 error 6
> 
> with some similar errors later, but the pdf docs seem to 
> build correctly

That's a problem with resources on your specific system.
 
> Because of the problems (most serious Tcl) I did'nt try
> to build the installers.
> 
> One other "problem":  INSTALL says that, among othres, 
>  hhc.exe needs to be in the path. I don't have it in the path, and 
> more, does'nt know what it is or what it is supposed to do. 
> Can this be cause of some of the problems above?

It is part of HTML Help Workshop.  You can't build CHM help without it,
so I suspect it must be in your path.


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