[R-SIG-Win] Rtools44

[Avraham Adler]

Hello, Tomas.

As always, thank you for your incessant hard work. I have compiled
R-devel 86144 using Rtools44 and it completes normally. However, it
fails very early in make check-devel. Specifically, I get the output
below, and have received it more than once. Is this something to raise
on R-devel or is it an Rtools44-specific issue?

Thank you,

Avi

$ make check-devel
Testing examples for package 'base'
Testing examples for package 'tools'
  comparing 'tools-Ex.Rout' to 'tools-Ex.Rout.save' ... NOTE
  1046,1047d1045
  < Warning in file(con, "r") :
  <   file("") only supports open = "w+" and open = "w+b": using the former
  1050,1051c1048,1049
  <  $ file    : chr ""
  <  $ title   : chr ""
  ---
  >  $ file    : chr "grid.Rnw"
  >  $ title   : chr "Introduction to grid"
Testing examples for package 'utils'
Error: testing 'utils' failed
Execution halted
make[3]: *** [Makefile.win:29: test-Examples-Base] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile.common:208: test-Examples] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile.common:193: test-all-basics] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:333: check-devel] Error 2



On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 4:45 AM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear R Windows developers,
>
> there is now a new toolchain for R for Windows, Rtools44. It is now used
> by R-devel and is intended for R 4.4.0.
>
> Compared to Rtools43, it uses GCC 13 and updates other core components.
> See https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/rtools44/news.html for
> a detailed list of changes.
>
> All users of R-devel who need to compile R packages with source code in
> C, C++ or Fortran should install Rtools44. From the user perspective,
> Rtools44 works the same way as Rtools43. See
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/howto-R-devel.html for
> instructions on how to build R-devel and packages for this version of R.
>
> It is recommended to re-install packages that need compilation to avoid
> potential incompatibilities with code built using Rtools43.
>
> Rtools44 also includes an experimental version for 64-bit ARM machines,
> using LLVM 17 (and clang, flang-new, lld, libc++) - the aarch64 version
> of Rtools has its own installer and distribution tarballs.
>
> Best
> Tomas
>
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