[R] Build R-patched from Source

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

> Ah yes, thanks.  I did forget to put hcc and unzip32.dll in my PATH.

unzip32.dll is put in the unzip directory, not in your PATH.

> Now I have successfully built R, and also build the zip distribution files
> with:
>     make distribution

You alos need to get or build the zip files for all the recommended
packages.

> However when I edited the Makefile under the installer directory as
> follows:
>     # location where Inno Setup was installed
>     ISDIR="C:\Program Files\Inno Setup 2"
>     # location where binary packages are kept
>     PKGS=C:\Temp\R-patched\library
>
> I got the following errors when I tried to make:
>     [...omitted...]
>     unzip:  cannot find either C:TempR-patchedlibrary/survival or
> C:TempR-patchedlib
>     rary/survival.zip.
>     [...omitted...]
> I have omitted the rest of lines as they're all the same.
>
> I have also tried to change the PKGS definition to:
>     PKGS=C:/Temp/R-patched/library
> but it still didn't work.
>
> Is it a wrong way to specify my PKGS?  C:\Temp\R-patched is my $R_HOME,
> hence C:\Temp\R-patched\library contains all the compiled packages.

Use forward slashes (although I think only the messages are confused
here). It's looking for zip files, not compiled packages.


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