Hello ... I noticed this last night when I updated R-devel, and then figured that I had some 'make clean' or related issues and would look at it today. This morning I did a rsync of r-devel into a fresh directory and am now having the same issue. Basically, whenever R is trying to install a package with an 'inst' directory in it (even in the base packages, thus this happens during the build of R), I get the output (this example from the 'utils' package): installing inst files FIND: Parameter format not correct make[2]: *** [c:/r/R-1.9.0/library/utils/inst] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make: *** [pkg-utils] Error 2 *** Installation of utils failed *** Is anyone else seeing this? It might be something from my own system, I realize - although AFAIK nothing has changed on this machine and it wasn't encountering this issue before (although admittedly the last time I built R was about 2 weeks ago). Any ideas? Thanks -J
Installing Win32 packages w/ 'inst' dirs
3 messages · Brian Ripley, Jeff Gentry
I believe you are finding the Windows FIND.EXE not the find.exe in my set of tools. Have you cross-checked the path list in the INSTALL file?
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Jeff Gentry wrote:
Hello ... I noticed this last night when I updated R-devel, and then figured that I had some 'make clean' or related issues and would look at it today. This morning I did a rsync of r-devel into a fresh directory and am now having the same issue. Basically, whenever R is trying to install a package with an 'inst' directory in it (even in the base packages, thus this happens during the build of R), I get the output (this example from the 'utils' package): installing inst files FIND: Parameter format not correct make[2]: *** [c:/r/R-1.9.0/library/utils/inst] Error 2 make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make: *** [pkg-utils] Error 2 *** Installation of utils failed *** Is anyone else seeing this? It might be something from my own system, I realize - although AFAIK nothing has changed on this machine and it wasn't encountering this issue before (although admittedly the last time I built R was about 2 weeks ago). Any ideas? Thanks -J
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I believe you are finding the Windows FIND.EXE not the find.exe in my set of tools. Have you cross-checked the path list in the INSTALL file?
That's exactly what it was. The 'tools' were ahead of all of the other software I have installed to build packages and such, but was after the Win32 system directories. I put the tools dir at the front and the problem is solved. Thanks -J