[Rd] Check errors using R2.6.2

[Rossi, Peter E.]

great. sorry to have bothered.

btw, the MinGW windows .exe installer installs 3.4.5 not 4.2.1 so you
have
to download the untar the files one by one from sourceforge.

moving to Leopard soon so, hopefully, this garbage will go away.

p

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-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:12 PM
To: Uwe Ligges
Cc: Rossi, Peter E.; r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] Check errors using R2.6.2

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Uwe Ligges wrote:

>
>
> Rossi, Peter E. wrote:
>> I can successfully "check" a package with source under 2.5.1,
including
>> compiling source files and running examples with no errors or
warnings.
>>
>> when I try with R2.6.2, I get make errors:
>>
>> making bayesmc.d from bayesmc.c
>> make[3]:gcc-sjlj: Command not found
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> my gcc is version 3.4.2
>>
>> I'm using Windows XP.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> Yes: Upgrade gcc as the R Administration and Installation manual
> suggets. R >= 2.6.0 is built under gcc-4.2.1.

Alternatively, read the MkRules file and set the macros as needed for
your 
compiler (as the manual suggested).

However, gcc 3.4.2 is ancient and has known bugs that means it cannot
even 
compile R correctly on Windows.  If you must use gcc 3, at least use 
3.4.5.


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