On Thu, 31 May 2007, Jonathan Swinton wrote: > > I have a problem when building R from source on Windows XP. > > When I get to 3.1.3 of the Installation and Administration manual and try > make all recommended > from R_HOME it fails with > make: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
But it is from R_HOME/src/gnuwin32. > I am pretty sure there is an obvious and well documented thing I am missing, > but missing it I am. Any clues? > > Is my problem that I have a Makefile.in but not a Makefile? Have I understood > section 3.1.3 correctly that no ./configure step is needed? Although my > reading > of the I&A manual is that no ./configure step is needed under Windows, I did > wonder and tried running > sh ./configure You really don't want to do that, and to be sure it did no harm you need to unpack R afresh. > but that failed with > chmod: not found > chmod: not found > chmod: not found > configure: error: cannot create configure.lineno; rerun with a POSIX shell > > > make is GNU make 3.79.1; I don't know how to identify which sh it is but it is > the one in the Rtools\bin directory. > > I having downloaded all the tools listed in Appendix E (save InnoSetup) and > installed them and set my path to be: > > PATH=c:\Rtools\bin;C:\Perl\bin\;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\progra~1\htmhe~1;C:\Progr > am Files\MiKTeX > 2.6\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System3 > 2\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
