R devel - Mar 2015 - Rtools version 3.3.0.1957 looking for C even though RTOOLS variable is pointing elsewhere

Good evening.

Testing the most recent version of Rtools, the build stops about when
text.c is being compiled in the tools package (just after R.Lapack). The
compilation is looking for gcc in C:, even though RTOOLS is set for another
drive, and the compilation has successfully run until this point. This did
not happen last night with version 1955.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled Rtools three times, I have
F:/R/Rtools/gcc492_64/bin as the first entry in my path, and I do not have
a Makevars file in my user directory that could possibly override it, so I
am at a loss as to why this happening. The specific error is brought below.

Thank you,

Avi


F:/R/Rtools/gcc492_64/bin/windres    -i dllversion.rc -o dllversion.o
F:/R/Rtools/gcc492_64/bin/gcc -std=gnu99  -shared -s  -o lapack.dll
lapack.def Lapack.o dllversion.o
 -L../../../bin/x64 -lRlapack -lRblas -lR
cp lapack.dll ../../../modules/x64/lapack.dll
building package 'base'
building package 'tools'
making text.d from text.c
C:/Rtools/gcc492_64/bin/gcc: not found
make[4]: *** [text.d] Error 127
make[3]: *** [mksrc-win2] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

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The subject line is in error, as the issue must be in "R-devel.tar.gz"
as running the same Rtools on last night's download of
R-devel_2015-03-09.tar.gz successfully navigates that error.

The error exists in R-devel_2015-03-12.tar.gz and
R-devel_2015-03-12.tar.gz and R-devel_2015-03-10.tar.gz, but not
R-devel_2015-03-09.tar.gz, so it must have been something between 09
and 10.

Avi

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Avraham Adler <avraham.adler at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Good evening.
>
> Testing the most recent version of Rtools, the build stops about when
text.c
> is being compiled in the tools package (just after R.Lapack). The
> compilation is looking for gcc in C:, even though RTOOLS is set for another
> drive, and the compilation has successfully run until this point. This did
> not happen last night with version 1955.
>
> I've uninstalled and reinstalled Rtools three times, I have
> F:/R/Rtools/gcc492_64/bin as the first entry in my path, and I do not have
a
> Makevars file in my user directory that could possibly override it, so I am
> at a loss as to why this happening. The specific error is brought below.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Avi
>
>
> F:/R/Rtools/gcc492_64/bin/windres    -i dllversion.rc -o dllversion.o
> F:/R/Rtools/gcc492_64/bin/gcc -std=gnu99  -shared -s  -o lapack.dll
> lapack.def Lapack.o dllversion.o
>  -L../../../bin/x64 -lRlapack -lRblas -lR
> cp lapack.dll ../../../modules/x64/lapack.dll
> building package 'base'
> building package 'tools'
> making text.d from text.c
> C:/Rtools/gcc492_64/bin/gcc: not found
> make[4]: *** [text.d] Error 127
> make[3]: *** [mksrc-win2] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2

The following changes may be responsible:

src\gnuwin32\fixed\Makefile lines 31 and 47 where version 9 has '-e
"s|BINPREF =|BINPREF = $(BINPREF)|" \' and version 10 has '-e
's|BINPREF =|BINPREF ?= $$(RTOOLS)gcc492_64/bin/|' \'.

Or, it may have been the addition of "RTOOLS ?= C:/Rtools/" on line 17
of src\gnuwin32\fixed\etc\Makeconf in version 10.

There are 31 other files with differences, but they do not seem to have bearing.

Thank you,

Avi