I believe the bug is triggered by the fairly unusual event you have a
'.'
in the package name, and the change in 2.2.1 to 2.2.1 patched was to add
> LIBRARY R.native.dll
^^^^
(which is what my workaround in ld.exe was doing another way).
Since we are told that is the correct form and we were using it
incorrectly before, I don't really know how to work around this. For you,
just delete .dll in the following line in src/gnuwin32/MkRules
%.dll:
@$(ECHO) LIBRARY $*.dll > $*.def
but that is not a general solution.
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I noticed that Brian Ripley found and corrected a bug in MinGW's
> ld.exe, see http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/. Thanks for
> this. I wonder if this is the same bug that cause my problems. I
> have tiny toy package with C code that installs perfectly on R Version
> 2.2.1 beta (2005-12-18 r36792) [this version was mislabelled
"beta"
> the first few hours on CRAN when the stable 2.2.1 version first came
> out]. However, when I try to install the same on R Version 2.2.1
> Patched (2006-02-09 r37305) as well as R Version 2.3.0 Under
> development (unstable) (2006-02-02 r37243), I get the following error:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\hb\braju.com.R\R.native\build>Rcmd install
R.native
>
> ---------- Making package R.native ------------
> adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> making DLL ...
> making rowMedians.d from rowMedians.c
> gcc -IC:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.2.1pat/include -Wall -O2 -c rowMedians.c -o
rowMedia
> ns.o
> ar cr R.native.a rowMedians.o
> ranlib R.native.a
> windres --include-dir C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.2.1pat/include -i R.native_res.rc
-o R.
> native_res.o
> gcc --shared -s -o R.native.dll R.native.def R.native.a R.native_res.o
-LC:/P
> ROGRA~1/R/R-2.2.1pat/src/gnuwin32 -lg2c -lR
> c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.4\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe:
R.native.d
> ef:1: syntax error
>
c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.4\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe:R.native.de
> f: file format not recognized; treating as linker script
>
c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.4\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe:R.native.de
> f:1: syntax error
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [R.native.dll] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [srcDynlib] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [pkg-R.native] Error 2
> *** Installation of R.native failed ***
>
> Removing 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.2.1pat/library/R.native'
> Restoring previous 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-2.2.1pat/library/R.native'
>
> My R.native.def looks like this:
>
> LIBRARY R.native.dll
> EXPORTS
> rowMedians
> rowMediansInteger
> rowMediansReal
>
> I've tried to replace the two occurances of ld.exe in MINGW with
BR's
> patch, but I get the same error. The ld of the patch and the original
> one show the same version string;
> patch: GNU ld version 2.16.91 20050827 and original: GNU ld version
> 2.16.91 20050827. I've tried to use both MINGW v5.0.0 and v5.0.2 with
> both "current" (v3.4.2) and "candidate" (v3.4.4)
packages.
Hmm, only 3.4.5 is there as a candidate.
> Is this related to the bug BR found? Any suggestions what might go
> wrong between R v2.2.1 and v2.2.1 patched?
>
> Thanks
>
> Henrik
>
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