[R] problem with constructing bitmap

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I suspect you have libpng 1.5.0 (assuming you installed libpng at 
all).  So

1) That version has a CERT advisory, and should not be used.  1.5.1 is 
due tomorrow.

2) R 2.12.1 cannot work with future versions of external software.
libpng 1.4.5 does work, but not 1.5.x.

(And BTW, questions about buldiing R from sources are more likely to 
be noticed on R-devel.)

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Erin Hodgess wrote:

> Dear R People:
>
> I'm building R-2.12.1 from scratch on a Windows XP machine.
>
> The "make all recommended" worked fine, but when I did the make in the
> bitmap directory, I got the following error:
>
> C:\R\R-2.12.1\src\gnuwin32\bitmap>make
> make
> make CC='gcc -std=gnu99' AR='ar' \
>  CFLAGS="-O3 -I../../../extra/zlib -DPNG_NO_MMX_CODE" \
>  RANLIB=ranlib ZLIBLIB=../../../extra/zlib -C libpng \
>  -f scripts/makefile.mingw prefix=foo libpng.a
> make[2]: scripts/makefile.mingw: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/makefile.mingw'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [buildpng] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Does this look familiar to anyone, please?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Sincerely,
> Erin
>
>
> -- 
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
>
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