zip error, missing file

4.  Noticed this error go by in the r-devel build in Windows 95:

F:/R/TOOLS/BIN/MAKE.EXE -C ./help RHOME=F:/R/R-devel
PKGDIR=F:/R/R-devel/src/lib
rary RLIB=F:/R/R-devel/library ziponlyhelp-base
MAKE.EXE[2]: Entering directory `F:/R/R-devel/src/gnuwin32/help'
zip -jqmX help/Rhelp help/* -x help/AnIndex 2> nul
MAKE.EXE[3]: [zipup] Error 12 (ignored)

My guess is that it's a problem with "2> nul".  That syntax isn't
supported by COMMAND.COM.  It didn't appear to cause any problems
though...

COMMAND.COM should not be used. The correct shell is /bin/sh,exe, which is
ash.  This fails the first time through a build (as there is notheing to
update).

5.  But this one has me stopped again:

 gcc  --shared -s  -o ctest.dll ctest.def ctest.a ctest_res.o   -lg2c
EXTRADOCS=
 F:/R/R-devel/bin/R.dll
 gcc: EXTRADOCS=: No such file or directory
 MAKE.EXE[3]: *** [ctest.dll] Error 1
 MAKE.EXE[3]: Leaving directory `F:/R/R-devel/src/library/ctest/src'
 F:\R\TOOLS\BIN\MAKE.EXE[2]: *** [src/ctest.dll] Error 2
 F:\R\TOOLS\BIN\MAKE.EXE[2]: Leaving directory
`F:/R/R-devel/src/library/ctest'

It looks to me as though gcc thinks "EXTRADOCS=" is a filename, but I
don't know  why.  The only place I can spot this is in
src/gnuwin32/Makefile line 184, but it might be coming from somewhere
else, and I don't know what is causing the error.

I don't see that with my make and sh.  The command run is

/cygdrive/c/R/tools/make DLLNM=  FLIBS="-lg2c" EXTRADOCS= \
  -C c:/R/rw1040/src/library/ctest PKG=ctest RHOME=c:/R/rw1040 RLIB=c:/R/rw1040/library \
  -f c:/R/rw1040/src/gnuwin32/MakePkg
make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/R/rw1040/src/library/ctest'
---------- Making package ctest ------------
mkdir -p c:/R/rw1040/library/ctest
cp -r   ./INDEX  ./TITLE  c:/R/rw1040/library/ctest/
  making DLL
make[3]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/R/rw1040/src/library/ctest/src'
windres --include-dir c:/R/rw1040/src/include  -i ctest_res.rc -o ctest_res.o
------- Building ctest.dll from ctest.a ctest_res.o --------
echo LIBRARY ctest > ctest.def
echo EXPORTS >> ctest.def
nm ctest.a ctest_res.o > Defs
sed -n '/^........ [BCDRT] _/s/^........ [BCDRT] _/ /p' Defs >> ctest.def
rm -f Defs
gcc  --shared -s  -o ctest.dll ctest.def ctest.a ctest_res.o   -lg2c c:/R/rw1040/bin/R.dll
make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/R/rw1040/src/library/ctest/src'
  DLL made

....

so it looks like make is mis-behaving.  On the other hand, I have not idea
what it is for (Guido?) and suggest you remove it from
src/gnuwin32/Makefile.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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