having trouble building r-devel
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 Mark.Bravington@csiro.au wrote:
When I set PATH to start with a dot (looking at the INSTALL file section on "Check your path"), "make" fails again with the ".install_package_description" error. 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?
or preferably (ii) "make" needs to temporarily change the search path, or to look more explicitly for the new R.exe file. 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. BTW, getting R-devel to cross-compile has been a nightmare, but has been achieved.
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