[R] Windows build

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Aug 5 21:56:17 CEST 2004


On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Gustavo Pinheiro wrote:

> I've tried building R in Windows and had trouble compiling Bitmap.dll 
> (make bitmapdll) and the docs (make docs). See make output below:
> 
> E:\R\R-1.9.1\src\gnuwin32>make bitmapdll
> make -C bitmap
> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/e/R/R-1.9.1/src/gnuwin32/bitmap'
> make[3]: `libz.a' is up to date.
> make[3]: scripts/makefile.std: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/makefile.std'.  Stop.
> make[2]: *** [buildpng] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/e/R/R-1.9.1/src/gnuwin32/bitmap'
> make: *** [bitmapdll] Error 2
> 
> I couldn't find 'scripts/makefile.std' anywhere. These are the files in 
> src/gnuwin32/bitmap:
> 
> jpeg-6b (folder)
> libpng  (folder)
> INSTALL
> jconfig.h
> Makefile
> Makefile.jpeg
> rbitmap.c

It should be in libpng.  It certainly is in the current tarball, 
libpng-1.2.5.tar.gz, so please check how you have lost it.

> For the 'make docs' part, what I got was lots of:
> 
> Underfull \hbox (badness 3407) in paragraph at lines 21211--21216
> /aett10/a/aer10/. If /aett10/LINPACK /aer10/is /aett10/TRUE /aer10/the 
> de-fault
>  is /aett10/1e-7/aer10/, oth-er-wise it is
> [351] [352] [353] [354] [355] [356] [357] [358]
> Underfull \hbox (badness 1173) in paragraph at lines 21715--21715
> []/aer10/Double pre-ci-sion value, in dec-i-mal no-ta-tion of the form 
> /aett10/
> [-]m.ddde[+-]xx /aer10/or
> [359] [360] [361]
> ! Interrmake[1]: *** Deleting file `refman.pdf'
> uption.
> <to be read again>
>                    \@tempskipa
> l.21899 \end{Value}
> 
> ?
> ! Emergency stop.
> <to be read again>
>                    \@tempskipa
> 
> docs/README says that it is necessary to set a certain pool_size var to 
> 500000, but I was not able to find any conf file
> with that var. By the way, I'm using fptex (default install).

texmf.cnf does (or something very similar).  However, that looks like a
flakiness causing an interrupt.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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