On 1/14/2008 6:25 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Recently I have heard reports like the one below a couple of times: > > Tineke Casneuf wrote: >> However I did encouter an error when trying to install a self-made dummy >> package. I am sure it is not due to the package because it can be build on >> someone else's windows PC. >> >> The error message is *rm: failed to get attributes of `/': No such file or >> directory. > Today I saw one live, and managed to track down the problem. Cygwin > (from which the Windows R toolset gets a number of utilities), stores > information on its mounts in the Windows registry. If you later > uninstall it but leave the registry entries in place, you'll get an > error like the above. The rm utility thinks that "/" refers to a > directory like c:\cygwin, but such a directory doesn't exist. > > I don't know if this is a bug in the Cygwin uninstaller (which I would > say should remove registry entries once they are no longer valid), in rm > (which should ignore mounts that don't make sense), or if it is user > error. But the fix is quite simple: look in the registry (under > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2, or the > same location in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), and remove any invalid mounts. > > I will modify the Rtools installer to work around this problem.
This is now in place. I also added the ability to manually edit the PATH, in case you don't like the automatic edits. Hopefully I didn't introduce any new bugs at the same time. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
