Hi,
I've contacted the processx package maintainer on a problem reported
here previously (see
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-April/244667.html). He
suggested to try the github version but that triggered a different type
of error which does not seem to be package-specific.
1st try: build from a local copy of the github package sources with
default locale settings on a German Windows 10 system
install.packages("/cygdrive/c/Temp/processx-master",repos=NULL,type="source")
Installing package into ‘/usr/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘processx’ ...
** using staged installation
Error : Invalid DESCRIPTION file
Authors@R field gives no person with maintainer role, valid email
address and non-empty name.
See section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions'
manual.
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘processx’
* removing ‘/usr/lib/R/site-library/processx’
Warning message:
In install.packages("/cygdrive/c/Temp/processx-master", repos = NULL, :
installation of package ‘/cygdrive/c/Temp/processx-master’ had
non-zero exit status
2nd try: same as above, but with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
same result as above
3rd try: edit DESCRIPTION file and remove accented characters in author
name
(change "Gábor", "Csárdi" to "Gabor", "Csardi")
install.packages("/cygdrive/c/Temp/processx-master",repos=NULL,type="source")
Installing package into ‘/usr/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘processx’ ...
** using staged installation
** libs
gcc -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -std=gnu99
-fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/d/cyg_pub/devel/R/R-3.6.3-1.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/R-3.6.3-1
-fdebug-prefix-map=/cygdrive/d/cyg_pub/devel/R/R-3.6.3-1.x86_64/src/R-3.6.3=/usr/src/debug/R-3.6.3-1
-Wall tools/px.c -o tools/px
[...]
So this circumvents the problems in processing the non-ASCII description
file (which is properly tagged as UTF-8 BTW), but it results in the same
compilation failure as reported in the message above.
As mentioned in the other report, Cygwin is a fresh installation as of
April 28, R package version is R 3.6.3.1.
regards,
Markus
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Markus Hoenicka
http://www.mhoenicka.de
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