From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Jan 12 15:51:48 2007
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:51:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1
 windows binaries?
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

> I'd like to know one thing though - was there any specific reason for
> the mingw upgrade after 2.4.0, or was it just a routine
> latest-is-greatest upgrade?

There are specific requirements: from the CHANGES file

2.4.0:

mingw-runtime >= 3.10 is required to build R (a bug fix in the handling
of MBCS code is required).  This is enforced by a check in building
Rpwd.exe.

2.5.0-to-be:

mingw-runtime >= 3.11 is needed to build R.

[There are multiple reasons, but one is that isblank is missing in earlier 
versions.]

I am almost certain that I have build R 2.4.1 with mingw-runtime 3.10.

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[Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?
Prof Brian Ripley