Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just updated my copy of Cygwin to the latest version, and now Windows > builds are failing on that machine. The only parts of the R toolset I > changed were the Cygwin dlls. I haven't tracked down exactly what the > problem is, and probably won't be able to do so for a few days.
> So if you're a Windows user thinking about a Cygwin upgrade, be prepared > for problems... The change that bit me is that the latest cygwin bash is unhappy with cr/lf line endings in scripts. Which breaks some of the "R CMD ..." scripts in non-obvious ways. The error messages are hard to interpret because they have embedded "\r" characters, causing some of the text of the messages to be overwritten. There is a sort-of workaround in the latest release (the "igncr" shell option) but that seems to still be in flux so I decided to revert to the previous release for now. There seems to be a somewhat cavalier attitude among Cygwin developers about backwards compatibility. They've said that their primary focus is on making cygwin as linux-like as possible, and they're willing to sacrifice interoperability to do so. -- Dave ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
