[R] problems compiling R-devel packages in Windows

[Tony Plate]

I'm trying (for the first time) to compile R-devel on my Windows2000 machine.

I retrieved the most recent r-devel sources using rsync.
I retrieved the R-tools and MinGW and made appropriate modifications to my 
path (I'm using cygwin):
$ type make
make is hashed (/c/netsrc/R-devel/tools/make)
$ type gcc
gcc is /c/mingw/bin/gcc
$ type hhc.exe
hhc.exe is /c/Program Files/HTML Help Workshop/hhc.exe
$ perl --version

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Binary build 630 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 20:29:41 Oct 31 2001

I ran ./configure from the top level.
Then I cd'ed to src/gnuwin32 and ran make.

Things work OK until it comes to compiling packages; I get the same types 
of errors on all the packages (I tried make -k):

---------- Making package ts ------------
mkdir -p c:/netsrc/R-devel/R/library/ts
cp -r   ./INDEX  ./TITLE ./Makefile ./SOURCES c:/netsrc/R-devel/R/library/ts/
   making DLL
make[3]: Entering directory `/c/netsrc/R-devel/R/src/library/ts/src'
../../../../etc/Makeconf:61: warning: overriding commands for target `.c.o'
c:/netsrc/R-devel/R/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:92: warning: ignoring old commands for
target `.c.o'
../../../../etc/Makeconf:63: warning: overriding commands for target `.c.d'
c:/netsrc/R-devel/R/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:88: warning: ignoring old commands for
target `.c.d'
../../../../etc/Makeconf:70: warning: overriding commands for target `.cc.o'
c:/netsrc/R-devel/R/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:98: warning: ignoring old commands for
target `.cc.o'
../../../../etc/Makeconf:72: warning: overriding commands for target `.cpp.o'
c:/netsrc/R-devel/R/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:101: warning: ignoring old 
commands for
  target `.cpp.o'
../../../../etc/Makeconf:74: warning: overriding commands for target `.C.o'
c:/netsrc/R-devel/R/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:104: warning: ignoring old 
commands for
  target `.C.o'
../../../../etc/Makeconf:96: warning: overriding commands for target `.f.o'
c:/netsrc/R-devel/R/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:95: warning: ignoring old commands for
target `.f.o'
making PPsum.d from PPsum.c
making arima.d from arima.c
making burg.d from burg.c
making carray.d from carray.c
making filter.d from filter.c
making init.d from init.c
making mburg.d from mburg.c
making myw.d from myw.c
making pacf.d from pacf.c
making qr.d from qr.c
making starma.d from starma.c
(diff R.exp R.exp1 > /dev/null) || cp R.exp1 R.exp
ar cr ts.a *.o
c:\mingw\bin\ar.exe: *.o: Invalid argument
make[3]: *** [ts.a] Error 1

Any suggestions on what I need to do to get this to compile properly?  I 
looked in src/gnuwin32/MkRules, but there doesn't seem to be anything I 
need to change in there.

thanks,

Tony Plate

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