R devel - May 2003 - Problems building R-1.7.0 on windows XP

Hola!

Everything went well until 
make distribution

The last few lines from the make output is:

Copying spatial
find rw1070 -name CVS -prune -exec rm -rf \{\} \;
FIND: formato de par?metros incorrecto
make[2]: *** [imagedir] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/R/Rsource/R-
1.7.0/src/gnuwin32/installer'
make[1]: *** [rinstaller] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/R/Rsource/R-
1.7.0/src/gnuwin32'
make: *** [distribution] Error 2

So there seems to be a problem with find. I downloaded and innstalled 
the latest version of tools.zip today.

Any idea of what is going wrong?

Kjetil Halvorsen

On Tue, 06 May 2003 20:54:20 -0400, you wrote:
>Hola!
>
>Everything went well until 
>make distribution
>
>The last few lines from the make output is:
>
>Copying spatial
>find rw1070 -name CVS -prune -exec rm -rf \{\} \;
>FIND: formato de par?metros incorrecto
>make[2]: *** [imagedir] Error 2
I don't know what that error would be, but you don't really need to go
that far.  By that point you're building the installer; if you're
doing a build for yourself, you only need to go as far as "docs" in
the list of targets in the src/gnuwin32/INSTALL file.  

If I were going to guess at the reason, I'd guess you have a different
version of find in your path ahead of the R tools one (mine gives
English error messages), or you have something on your system that
makes it think it's talking Spanish, so perhaps "-name",
"-prune" and
"-exec" need to be translated too.

Duncan Murdoch