[Rd] Check errors using R2.6.2

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Rossi, Peter E. wrote:

> great. sorry to have bothered.
>
> btw, the MinGW windows .exe installer installs 3.4.5 not 4.2.1 so you
> have

What installer?  *We* provide one with both in, and document it in the 
manual.

> to download the untar the files one by one from sourceforge.
>
> moving to Leopard soon so, hopefully, this garbage will go away.

No, Leopard also does not come with the tools you need (like a Fortran 
compiler).

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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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> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595