Problem building (binary) packages for Windows

Hi,

I am having a problem building binary packages for
Windows recently.

Normally, I use the "Murdoch-Sutherland" tool set,
       http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/
just build source packages by
       R CMD build <pkgname>
and install these with
       R CMD INSTALL <pkgname>

But now, for someone without having this tool set installed,
under Win XP, with R-2.10dev (details below), I tried
building a binary version with
       R CMD build --binary <pkgname>
which used to work for me until recently (unfortunately I
cannot specify "recently" here...)

Trying to install the created .zip file with
       utils:::menuInstallLocal()

I get an error message
"
package 'distr' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error in unpackPkg(pkgs[i], pkgnames[i], lib) :
  malformed bundle DESCRIPTION file, no Contains field
"

Now AFAICS I have not tried to build a bundle ...

Searching the help archives, I found a posting by Uwe Ligges,
       http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/64574/
saying that
       R CMD INSTALL --build
was preferable to
       R CMD build --binary
--- in which respect? Would this avoid the error message?

Problem building (binary) packages for Windows

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