[Rd] Installing Win32 packages w/ 'inst' dirs

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I believe you are finding the Windows FIND.EXE not the find.exe in my set 
of tools.  Have you cross-checked the path list in the INSTALL file?

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote:

> Hello ...
> 
> I noticed this last night when I updated R-devel, and then figured that I
> had some 'make clean' or related issues and would look at it today.  This
> morning I did a rsync of r-devel into a fresh directory and am now having
> the same issue.
> 
> Basically, whenever R is trying to install a package with an 'inst'
> directory in it (even in the base packages, thus this happens during the
> build of R), I get the output (this example from the 'utils' package):
> 
>   installing inst files
> FIND: Parameter format not correct
> make[2]: *** [c:/r/R-1.9.0/library/utils/inst] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [pkg-utils] Error 2
> *** Installation of utils failed ***
> 
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this?  It might be something from my own system, I
> realize - although AFAIK nothing has changed on this machine and it wasn't
> encountering this issue before (although admittedly the last time I built
> R was about 2 weeks ago).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> -J
> 
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