Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 1/12/2007 12:04 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Argh... MBCS. I tried running wine with debug on, >> ( WINEDEBUG=+relay wine Rgui.exe 2>&1 ) and it shows that just before >> 2.4.1/2.5dev crashes, R tried to called strlen() and strchr() on >> "Error: invalid multibyte string" in ntdll. >> >> Call ntdll.strlen(6c9a0a80 "Error: invalid multibyte string\n") >> ret=6c9150bd >> Call ntdll.strchr(00e192e0 "Error: invalid multibyte >> string\n",0000000a) ret=6c704ec0 > > That may be the error people were getting when running 2.4.0 in a > Simplified Chinese locale, because one of the translation files had the > wrong encoding. See this message in CHANGES: > > The Simplified Chinese menu messages were in the wrong format, causing > RGui to crash on startup. (PR#9277)
2.4.0 works and 2.4.1/2.5dev crashes, all on the same machine with the same version of wine in en_GB.UTF-8 locale. export |grep 'LANG' declare -x LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" I found all 3 versions of Rgui.exe hangs (and not crashes) if I run wine under LANG=C . I think it would be most interesting to try building the older 2.4.0 with newer mingw - that would distinguish whether it is code change in R or change in mingw. (I'll give this a try in the next few days). Hin-Tak > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> It might be bogus, but the same trace is not found in >> WINEDEBUG=+relay wine Rgui.exe 2>&1 >> with R 2.4.0 . >> >> Can I have a svn revision number for the MBCS change please? It >> should probably be the first thing I look at, as soon as I get >> my cross-compile tools up to date... thanks a lot. >> >> Hin-Tak >> >>> >>> 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. >>> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel