[Rd] Windows fixed/etc/Makeconf SHELL incorrect?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Martin Morgan wrote:

> D:\mtmorgan\src\R-devel>bin\R CMD config CC
> make: /bin/sh: Command not found
> make: ** [print] Error 127
> make: /bin/sh: Command not found
> make: ** [print] Error 127
>
> D:\mtmorgan\src\R-devel>bin\R CMD config CC
>
> This is on a system where cygwin and Rtools (from your installer) are
> under c:/usr (rather than the more usual location for cygwin directly
> under c:/). The system has seen many cooks over the years, and there
> could well be a misconfiguration somewhere else. PATH (e.g., to make,
> sh, ar) seem to point to the right location, versions seem to be
> correct, and changing SHELL to sh remedies the situation.

I am pretty sure that has the wrong make.exe.  Works for me without having 
/bin/sh on the system, and I worked hard to build a make.exe that was not 
looking for /bin/sh.

Does it work for you if SHELL is commented out in etc/Makeconf?

>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Martin Morgan wrote:
>>> R developers,
>>>
>>> On windows, it seems like R_HOME/etc/Makeconf has
>>>
>>> SHELL = /bin/sh
>>>
>>> instead of the location of Rtools' sh. I think this is because
>>> R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/fixed/etc/Makeconf needs to define SHELL as just
>>> sh (since Rtools/bin  has to be on the PATH).
>>>
>>> This is of consequence with R CMD config.
>>>
>> Could you show what goes wrong?  I don't don't see any problems.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> R version 2.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2007-10-19 r43218)
>>> Copyright (C) 2007 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>
>
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