[R] Cross-compiling R packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Laurent Gautier wrote:

> I tried to use the 'make' file discussed in the last R-news.
> 
> The step 'make R' dies with:
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/laurent/these/R/RCrossBuild/WinR/R-1.7.1/src/gnuwin32'
> sed -e s/@RVER@/`cut -d' ' -f1 ../../VERSION | sed -n 1p`/g -e s/@RWVER@/rw1071/g rw-FAQ.texi | \
>   makeinfo --no-headers --number-sections -o rw-FAQ
> makeinfo --no-split --html --no-headers --number-sections -o tmp.html tmp.texi
> tidy tmp.html > tmp2.html 2> /dev/null
> make[2]: [fixed/html/rw-FAQ.html] Error 127 (ignored)
> *** tidy appears to be non-functional ***
> make[2]: *** [fixed/html/rw-FAQ.html] Error 111
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/laurent/these/R/RCrossBuild/WinR/R-1.7.1/src/gnuwin32'
> make[1]: *** [docfiles] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/laurent/these/R/RCrossBuild/WinR/R-1.7.1/src/gnuwin32'
> 
> 
> Any hint ?

Well, you are missing `tidy', from http://tidy.sourceforge.net/, as 
mentioned in the src/gnuwin32/INSTALL file.

I don't see what the `make' file in the last R-news has to do with this: 
all the support for cross-compiling R is in the base R distribution.
Credit where credit is due!

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