From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] The answer seems to be: make sure you are using the tools in a current tools.zip. Neither Andy nor Uwe were. Both the version of make.exe and cygwin1.dll are critical. It's also wise to have a fairly recent version of Perl (628 or later), as some earlier ones made errors in calls to system() (as used in Rcmd SHLIB) on Win 9x.
Indeed. The cygwin1.dll I have in c:\cygwin\bin has date stamp later than the one in Rtools.zip, and that's the problem. Taking c:\cygwin\bin out of the PATH solved the problem. I don't remember why I had \cygwin\bin in the PATH. The default setup for bash adds the needed directories to the path anyway. Thanks very much to Prof. Ripley and Uwe Ligges for the help!! Regards, Andy -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._