[R] problem installing packages from source on win2k

Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch at pair.com
Sat Jun 14 04:52:54 CEST 2003


On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:35:22 -0400, you wrote:


>
>1.  I believe the build need to be done from a command prompt (a.k.a.
>"MSDOS"), rather than the cygwin bash.  The potential problem (at least the
>one I know about) is that the cygwin bash by default prepends it's own PATH
>to the system PATH, so it will find the cygwin compilers first before the
>minGW.

You need to adjust the path in either case.  I do builds in Cygwin
now; the path is set in /etc/profile.   Since I don't have the Cygwin
compilers installed, finding them first is not an issue.

Duncan Murdoch




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