[R] Error building R 2.14.0 from sources on Win7 x64

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Frédéric Fournier wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I'm trying to build R 2.14.0 from source on Win7 x64 using the
> instructions from "R Installation and Administration" (version
> 2.13.2), but when I try to make the core files (as of step 3.1.3 of
> the instructions), it fails with the following error:
>
> ...
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -std=gnu99 -m64 -I. -I../../gnuwin32
> -I../../include -DGA_DLL_BUILD -DENABLE_NLS=1  -O3 -Wall -pedantic
> -mtune=core2   -c tooltips.c -o tooltips.o
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -std=gnu99 -m64 -I. -I../../gnuwin32
> -I../../include -DGA_DLL_BUILD -DENABLE_NLS=1  -O3 -Wall -pedantic
> -mtune=core2   -c windows.c -o windows.o
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres -F pe-x86-64   -i dllversion.rc -o dllversion.o
> comm: file 1 is not in sorted order
> make[4]: *** [Rgraphapp.def] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [rlibs] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [../../bin/x64/R.dll] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [rbuild] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> As anyone stumbled on this problem before? Any idea what I can do to
> solve this problem?

I've never seen it, and I've built R on Windows many thousands of 
time.

Change your locale?  Does setting LC_COLLATE=C in your environment 
help?

> Thank you very much for your help!
>
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PLEASE do: this was not an approporiate question for R-help.

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