On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Rossi, Peter E. wrote: > great. sorry to have bothered. > > btw, the MinGW windows .exe installer installs 3.4.5 not 4.2.1 so you > have
What installer? *We* provide one with both in, and document it in the manual. > to download the untar the files one by one from sourceforge. > > moving to Leopard soon so, hopefully, this garbage will go away. No, Leopard also does not come with the tools you need (like a Fortran compiler). > p > > ................................ > Peter E. Rossi > Joseph T. and Bernice S. Lewis Professor of Marketing and Statistics > Director, Kilts Center for Marketing > Editor, Quantitative Marketing and Economics > Rm 353, Graduate School of Business, U of Chicago > 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago IL 60637 > Tel: (773) 702-7513 | Fax: (773) 834-2081 > WWW: http://ChicagoGsb.edu/fac/peter.rossi > SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=22862 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:12 PM > To: Uwe Ligges > Cc: Rossi, Peter E.; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Check errors using R2.6.2 > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Uwe Ligges wrote: > >> >> >> Rossi, Peter E. wrote: >>> I can successfully "check" a package with source under 2.5.1, > including >>> compiling source files and running examples with no errors or > warnings. >>> >>> when I try with R2.6.2, I get make errors: >>> >>> making bayesmc.d from bayesmc.c >>> make[3]:gcc-sjlj: Command not found >>> >>> etc. >>> >>> my gcc is version 3.4.2 >>> >>> I'm using Windows XP. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >> >> Yes: Upgrade gcc as the R Administration and Installation manual >> suggets. R >= 2.6.0 is built under gcc-4.2.1. > > Alternatively, read the MkRules file and set the macros as needed for > your > compiler (as the manual suggested). > > However, gcc 3.4.2 is ancient and has known bugs that means it cannot > even > compile R correctly on Windows. If you must use gcc 3, at least use > 3.4.5. > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
