Spurred by Hsiu-Khuern's post, I was able to compile R-devel_2015-03-08 using the already compiled distribution at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.9.2/threads-win32/seh/x86_64-4.9.2-release-win32-seh-rt_v3-rev1.7z/download>This GCC 4.9.2 using seh error handling and windows threads, so as per this note <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-March/070782.html>, I left out ICU. I also did not use curl for this build, I applied Hsiu-Khuern's suggestion to the NM filtering, and I left leaving Rtools\bin to handle utilities like tar.
I built all, cairodevices, recommended, vignettes, manuals, and rinstaller, and then ran make check-all. The only .out.fail file that appeared was the one for "internet.R" where I got a "connect: No error". That was fixed inside R by using setInternet2(). This has not happened for me before; has the internet handling in r-devel been changed? Is there a way to have that properly set in the Makefile? Skimming through the logs of the make check-all, some vignettes failed to generate as the packages they depend on could not be loaded. If there was a way to have the proper internet connectivity set when being compiled, it appears this would have passed make check-all completely. This build was also compiled against OpenBLAS 2.13 and a bunch of optimizations (specifically -O3 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -msse2avx -mavx256-split-unaligned-load -mavx256-split-unaligned-store -mvzeroupper -std=gnu++11 -pipe) and it still passed. While I uncommented OPENMP and PTHREAD in Mkrules, I have not explicitly checked them (unless that is handled in check-all). Also, I only built 64 bit, I did not try to simultaneously build a 32-bit version. However, being that this distribution is already compiled and exists, it may be easier to use than having to custom build off of the neuwen distro, and perhaps someone with more skill can try the 32 bit version and even getting curl to work (which may sidestep the internet problem I had above). Thank you, Avi ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
