[Rd] Compilation on Windows freezes at recommended packages

[Andrew Robbins]

It should pull down with pacman -Syuu as make is not shipped in the MXE 
tarball. This will need to be done on every install until a new release 
is cut, granted.


As an aside, do we want to revive R-sig-win? Its kind of a dead mailing 
list, but its still there.

On 5/26/2026 11:17 AM, Avraham Adler wrote:
> 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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Andrew Robbins
Research Software Specialist
University of Michigan
ITS Advanced Research Computing


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