[Rd] cygwin tar?
Tony Plate
tplate at blackmesacapital.com
Thu Mar 18 17:40:53 MET 2004
Duncan, thanks for the explanation. I prefer bash to the Windows command
line and it sounds like others do too.
Should I take it then that following the instructions in
src/gnuwin32/INSTALL should allow one to use the .exe's from tools.zip
inside a cygwin bash shell? Following those instructions used to work for
me, but it no longer does -- I get the cygwin1.dll conflict error no matter
what I do. The only thing that works for me is to remove the cygwin1.dll
that came with tools.zip (and thus use the cygwin1.dll that came with
cygwin.) I wonder if something has changed in either Windows 2000 or in
cygwin that makes cygwin1.dll more persistent than it used to be?
-- Tony Plate
At Wednesday 07:38 PM 3/17/2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:49:41 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >To build R from source in a Windows system, do you 'make' from cygwin bash,
> >or from a Windows command line prompt?
>
>I currently use Cygwin's bash, but I used to use Win98's command line
>prompt. I think they both still work, but the command line prompt is
>not being tested much these days.
>
> > After reading
> >src/gnuwin32/{INSTALL,readme,readme.packages} and the rw-FAQ, I strongly
> >suspect the shell commands in there are are intended to be run from only
> >the Windows command line prompt. I couldn't find any explicit mention of
> >which shell to use, but in rw-FAQ and readme.packages, the 'cd' commands
> >(at least those intended for execution on Windows systems) all use backward
> >slashes, which implies Windows command line. In src/gnuwin32/INSTALL, the
> >'cd' commands have forward slashes, which only works with a unix-style
> >shell, like bash. However I suspect those are typos.
>
>I wouldn't pay too much attention to the direction of the slashes.
>The documentation is generally written for the users who use the
>standard Windows shell, so backslashes are appropriate, but the
>developers mainly use Unix-like shells, so forward slashes are what we
>use. In fact, forward slashes work in many places in Windows
>(including the Win XP command line prompt).
>
>Duncan Murdoch
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