[Rd] r-devel tarball build failure on windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On my windows (xp) machine with Rtools29 (excluding cygwin dlls as I
> have cygwin on my path) -make all recommended- for the latest R-devel
> tarball (svn revision: 48093) fails when trying to build the
> recommended packages:


1. Have you asked make rsync-recommended before (i.e. are the packages 
actually there)?

2. If so, please install the cygwin dlls and try to remove cygwin from 
your path. The may very well be some version conflicts in I cannot build 
R / R packages if a full cygwin installation is around.

Uwe Ligges



> 
> --- Making recommended packages
> 
> ----- installing recommended package KernSmooth
> Warning: invalid package 'KernSmooth.tgz'
> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
> make[1]: *** [KernSmooth.ts] Error 1
> make: *** [recommended] Error 2
> 
> Looking at R_HOME/src/library/Recommended shows that none of the
> timestamp files .ts are generated(?) in that directory. If I manually
> create the empty timestamp files, build completes but -make check-
> failed. I suspect something with my build tools is not right but what
> could that be?
> 
> h.