[Rd] Compilation on Windows freezes at recommended packages

Avraham Adler @vr@h@m@@d|er @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Tue May 26 17:17:40 CEST 2026


On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org> wrote:
>
> В Wed, 6 May 2026 19:21:54 +0300
> Ivan Krylov via R-devel <r-devel using r-project.org> пишет:
>
> > it looked like GNU Make was stuck
>
> Indeed, this happened to me a few times just now, and it was Make in
> all cases. I think we stumbled upon a bug in the MSYS2 runtime:
> https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/issues/338

Yes, it clearly seems so. Now that Takashi Yano's patch was accepted
and merged [1] does Rtools45 need to be rebuilt or will it propagate
the next time MSYS2 is updated via "pacman -Syuu" or the like?

Thank you,

Avi

[1] https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/pull/339



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