From hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk  Thu Jan 11 16:12:30 2007
From: hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk (Hin-Tak Leung)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:12:30 +0000
Subject: [Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1
 windows binaries?
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Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 1/11/2007 6:52 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>> On 1/10/2007 2:29 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>>>> Does anybody (most probably the core team) know if there is
>>>> any difference in how the official 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 binaries are
>>>> built?
>>>>
>>>> Problem is, 2.4.0 loads with the wine (I tried a few recent
>>>> versions, and also used 2.3.x under wine from time to time),
>>>> but 2.4.1 won't.
>>> Yes, there were changes to the MinGW run-time library between those 
>>> two releases.  See http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/.
>>>
>>> If you can be more specific about the problem, it's possible the Wine 
>>> or MinGW people could fix it.
>>
>> With 2.4.1, "wine Rgui.exe" launches the main Rgui window, then crashes
>> and dropped with debug traces without being able to get to the
>> Rconsole tab. Logically it is a wine "bug", since the same binary
>> runs under genuine windows, but it looks like it is due to change
>> from mingw, so I guess I should involve both parties.
> 
> I'd suggest trying a build with debug information ("make distclean; make 
> DEBUG=T"), so that the debug trace has symbol names and line information 
> in it.  I could easily do such a build of R-patched or R-devel for you
> if you want to try this.

Thanks for the offer; but I think wine should cope as anything runs 
under windows should run, so I am inclined on playing with wine a bit to 
see if I can get it to tell me a bit more about what it is not
happy about 2.4.1. wine just should not be sensitive to mingw versions.

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Hin-Tak



[Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?
Hin-Tak Leung