R-devel (1.7 to be) on windows XP

4 messages · Kjetil Halvorsen, Brian Ripley, Uwe Ligges

Sun, Mar 30, 2003 3:59 PM #

Hola!

I'm trying to make r-devel on windows XP. I downloaded an hour ago
R-1.7.0beta_2003-03-30.tar.gz
make terminates without any error messages, with 
make check I get error messages from tests of internet and 
socket functions, surely because my modem was not 
connected (It doesn't say in the documentation (file INSTALL)
that internet must be connected under make check.)

But the file base-Ex.Rout has as last line
quit('no'), which I take to mean the rest of the checks went 
well?

make in directory \bitmap went without error messages, 
(but I had to say just make and not make bitmapdll as INSTALL says.)

Then, after installing the files from R_Tcl.zip using unzip from the 
tools collection:

C:\R\R17beta\R-1.7.0\src\gnuwin32>make tcl
make tcl

---------- Making package tcltk ------------
  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
  making DLL ...
gcc  -IC:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/src/include -Wall -O2 -I "C:/R/R17beta/R-
1.7.0/Tcl"/include -DWin32  -c tcltk.c -o tcltk.o
In file included from tcltk.c:3:
C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/tcl.h:2275:26: tclPlatDecls.h: No 
such file or directory
In file included from C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/tk.h:96,
                 from tcltk.c:4:
C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/X11/Xlib.h:48:28: X11/Xfuncproto.h: 
No such file or directory
C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/X11/Xlib.h:1205:28: 
tkIntXlibDecls.h: No such file or directory
In file included from C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/tk.h:96,
                 from tcltk.c:4:
C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/X11/Xlib.h:1207: parse error before 
"_XFUNCPROTOEND"
In file included from tcltk.c:4:
C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl/include/tk.h:120: syntax error before 
"typedef"
make[3]: *** [tcltk.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [src/tcltk.dll] Error 2
make[1]: *** [pkg-tcltk] Error 2
make: *** [tcl] Error 2

???

Then

make recommended

Warning messages: 
1: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/clogit.Rd' 
2: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/colon.Rd' 
3: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/heart.Rd' 
4: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/kidney.Rd' 
5: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/ovarian.Rd' 
6: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/rats.Rd' 
7: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/stanford2.Rd' 
8: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/survival-internal.Rd' 
9: incomplete final line found by readLines on `C:\R\R17beta\R-
1.7.0\src\library\survival/man/survreg.control.Rd' 
  zipping data
.
.
.
stataread.c: In function `R_LoadStataData':
stataread.c:144: warning: `labeltable' might be used uninitialized in 
this function
ar cr foreign.a *.o
.
.
.
grid.c: In function `L_text':
grid.c:1043: warning: `bounds' might be used uninitialized in this 
function
.
.
.
gcc   -IC:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/src/include -Wall -O2   -c unit.c -o 
unit.o
unit.c: In function `pureNullUnitArithmetic':
unit.c:279: warning: `result' might be used uninitialized in this 
function

and no more warnings, and no errors. Are this warnings expected?


Then
make check-recommended

runs without giving any errors.

Then

C:\R\R17beta\R-1.7.0\src\gnuwin32>make docs
make docs
collecting LaTeX docs for package `base' ...
      6 [main] sh 2396 proc_subproc: Couldn't duplicate my 
handle<0x7D8> for pid 0, Win32 error 6

with some similar errors later, but the pdf docs seem to 
build correctly

Because of the problems (most serious Tcl) I did'nt try
to build the installers.

One other "problem":  INSTALL says that, among othres, 
 hhc.exe needs to be in the path. I don't have it in the path, and 
more, does'nt know what it is or what it is supposed to do. 
Can this be cause of some of the problems above?

Kjetil Halvorsen

Brian Ripley

Mon, Mar 31, 2003 1:18 AM #

Kjetil,

You are sending a long report about your inexperience: most of this is no
different from the last few R versions.  We *do* actually check that
R-devel builds on Windows during feature freeze, so please start with the
assumption that problems are with your installation or mis-reading of the
instructions.

Brian

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:

And you only get warnings, not actual errors, BTW, so the Internet does
*not* need to be connected!  And make check does finish, I bet.

No, it means base checked correctly: it is the first check, not the last 
one.

INSTALL says to do make bitmapdll in src/gnuwin32, not in bitmap, and 
bitmap/INSTALL says to do make.  As in:

    If everything is set up in directory bitmap,

    	make bitmapdll

    will work from this directory.
    	      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    
Both pieces of documentation are correct, but your assertions are not.

The files mentioned as not found *are* in Tcl/include in that zip file.  
Please compare C:/R/R17beta/R-1.7.0/Tcl with the contents of the zip file
(and perhaps compare the zip file with that on the master site).

Yes.  We are not responsible for the infelicities in contributed packages.

That's a problem with resources on your specific system.

It is part of HTML Help Workshop.  You can't build CHM help without it,
so I suspect it must be in your path.

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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Uwe Ligges

Mon, Mar 31, 2003 1:43 AM #

kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:

Perhaps, but make check tells you:
"running tests of Internet and socket functions ...
   expect some differences"

So you have to be more explicit here ...

Interesting:
The httpget() part hangs on my machine. I'll look closer later this day 
or tomorrow...

"make bitmapdll" in ...\src\gnuwin32 or "make" in ...\src\gnuwin32\bitmap.

You have to unzip it in ...\R-1.7.0 , *not* in ...\src\gnuwin32 or 
anywhere else.

[SNIP]

[SNIP]
confirmed...

[SNIP]

I think so.

hhc.exe is from Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop (see INSTALL for details 
where to get it from, or Brian's page).
You cannot build *.chm help files without it.

Uwe Ligges

Uwe Ligges

Mon, Mar 31, 2003 7:56 AM #

Uwe Ligges wrote:

OK. I got it. The httpget() part in .../test/internet.R of make check 
hung on my machine for a simple reason:
A software called WebWasher 3.3 obviously blocked that connection ...
Sorry for any confusion.

Uwe