having trouble building r-devel
Aha-- thanks!
Or I've gotten my wires crossed...
The latter. Try commenting out # path (possibly full path) to same version of R on the host system # R_EXE=R ^^ in MkRules. It's uncommented there from experiments with cross-compiling. Works for me.
Yes, it's just worked for me too. Is it worth mentioning this in the INSTALL file after the sentence that says "IMPORTANT: edit MkRules to set the appropriate paths..."? [It may be that all my builds hitherto have actually invoked an earlier version of R than the one being built, but that this never mattered before.]
So it looks like either (i) the documentation should be
changed to tell
the user to reset the path manually (and NB the dot isn't useful for Windows 2000),
It was when I ran Windows 2000. What's wrong for you?
Just that, at the moment of running "make", the dot refers to src\gnuwin32, which doesn't pick up the R.exe file. With the commenting-out above, "make" now works fine for me now whether or not PATH starts with a dot. [I thought MS-DOS implicitly put a dot in, i.e. doesn't it always look for EXEs and BATs in the current directory first?] I think I need to start the path with <<current-R-version>>\bin rather than dot.
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