[Rd] Compilation on Windows freezes at recommended packages

[Avraham Adler]

Thank you, Andrew.

I just saw make updated today, so I should try rebuilding on the
failing platform sometime in the future.

As for r-sig-Windows, I would think we should revive it, especially in
light of this long thread [1] and the recent updates (comment 47 and
on) at [2], but it will require a Tomas-level guru to monitor it as
well. Especially since if the stack misalignment feature is actually
fixed, it may only be fixed for the upcoming GCC 17 [3], and Rtools45
uses GCC 14 [4].

Thank you,

Avi

[1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-windows/2024q1/000105.html
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412
[3] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412#c49
[4] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/rtools45/rtools.html

On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 12:43 PM Andrew Robbins via R-devel
<r-devel using r-project.org> wrote:
>
> 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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