[Rd] make check-all error on Win 7 with 2-12-.0: vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is a problem in the toolset (Cygwin), not in R, and indicates the 
machine was too busy (more or less as it says).

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Andy Bunn wrote:

> Hi all, I just built R from src on Windows 7 using Rtools212.exe. The build went as usual (R, bitmaps, and manuals all OK) but make check-all failed when running the examples for package 'tcltk':
>
>
> ...
> running code in 'demos2.R' ... OK
> running tests of primitives
> running code in 'primitives.R' ... OK
> make[2]: vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> make[1]: *** [test-all-devel] Error 1
> make: *** [check-all] Error 2
>
> There was no error when I ran make check-all a second time. Just FYI in case this means anything to the heavy-weight developers out there.
>
> -Andy
>
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