trouble building r-devel

Thanks Seth (and Duncan)-- the murdoch-sutherland page seems to fix
everything. The slimmed-down INSTALL file in R-devel src gnuwin32
doesn't refer to the page-- it might be good to add a reference.

Mark

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-----Original Message-----
From: r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch 
[mailto:r-devel-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Seth Falcon
Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2005 3:32 PM
To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] trouble building r-devel

<Mark.Bravington@csiro.au> writes:

cp unicode/iconv.dll ../../modules/
cp: cannot stat `unicode/iconv.dll': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [rmodules] Error 1
make[1]: *** [rbuild] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

See the section Unicode support here:
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/

Basically, you just need to download and then copy the 
iconv.dll to the right spot and you should be on your way.

+ seth

Mark.Bravington@csiro.au wrote:

Thanks Seth (and Duncan)-- the murdoch-sutherland page seems to fix
everything. The slimmed-down INSTALL file in R-devel src gnuwin32
doesn't refer to the page-- it might be good to add a reference.

Mark,

I disagree.
This "slimmed-down" file points you to the thorough Chapter "Installing 
R under Windows" in the "`R Installation and Administration' manual in 
the doc/manual directory". Quite at the top of Section "Building from 
source" there is the Subsection "Getting the tools".

I think we do NOT want to point people to Duncan's page at first, or 
they would not read the more comprehensive manual any more.

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:32:33 +0100, Uwe Ligges
<ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote :

Mark.Bravington@csiro.au wrote:

Thanks Seth (and Duncan)-- the murdoch-sutherland page seems to fix
everything. The slimmed-down INSTALL file in R-devel src gnuwin32
doesn't refer to the page-- it might be good to add a reference.

Mark,

I disagree.
This "slimmed-down" file points you to the thorough Chapter "Installing 
R under Windows" in the "`R Installation and Administration' manual in 
the doc/manual directory". Quite at the top of Section "Building from 
source" there is the Subsection "Getting the tools".

I think we do NOT want to point people to Duncan's page at first, or 
they would not read the more comprehensive manual any more.

This is a problem that is hopefully temporary.  Once 2.1.0 is out, it
will be reasonable to expect most Windows users to have installed the
binary version and have the manual available, the manual will be
available online, etc.  However, right now a source download only gets
the Texinfo source for the manual.

But as you say, the manual is the authority on how to do installs.
The web page will only have better information if the manual is out of
date, and that shouldn't happen before the release.

Duncan Murdoch

Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:32:33 +0100, Uwe Ligges
<ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote :

Mark.Bravington@csiro.au wrote:

Thanks Seth (and Duncan)-- the murdoch-sutherland page seems to fix
everything. The slimmed-down INSTALL file in R-devel src gnuwin32
doesn't refer to the page-- it might be good to add a reference.

Mark,

I disagree.
This "slimmed-down" file points you to the thorough Chapter "Installing R 
under Windows" in the "`R Installation and Administration' manual in the 
doc/manual directory". Quite at the top of Section "Building from source" 
there is the Subsection "Getting the tools".

I think we do NOT want to point people to Duncan's page at first, or they 
would not read the more comprehensive manual any more.

This is a problem that is hopefully temporary.  Once 2.1.0 is out, it
will be reasonable to expect most Windows users to have installed the
binary version and have the manual available, the manual will be
available online, etc.  However, right now a source download only gets
the Texinfo source for the manual.

The R-devel manual is online availabe at
http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/
so even this is not a big problem.