Dear r-devel list members, It's been several years since I last built a custom Windows installer for R, and despite my notes and the instructions in Sections 3.1.7 and D.4 of the R Installation and Administration Manual, I've run into a problem, receiving the following error message:
----------- snip ----------- C:\R\src\R-2.11.1\src\gnuwin32\installer>make myR IMAGEDIR=c:/temp/R-2.11.1 MDISDI=1 Makefile:3: ../MkRules: No such file or directory make: ../fixed/rwver.pl: Command not found make: ../fixed/rwver.pl: Command not found make: ../fixed/rwver.pl: Command not found make: ../fixed/rwver.pl: Command not found make: *** No rule to make target `../MkRules'. Stop. ----------- snip ----------- My path looks like this: ----------- snip ----------- C:\R\src\R-2.11.1\src\gnuwin32\installer>set path Path=c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\perl\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Program Files\Commo n Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\GTK\bin;C:\Program Files\Insightful\spl us80\;C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo Edit 4\;.;c:\R\R-2.11.1\bin;C:\progra~ 1\miktex~1.7\miktex\bin;c:\progra~1\htmlhe~1;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows; C:\W indows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Pr ogram Files\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files\CollabNet Subversion;C:\Program Files\ MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin;C:\Program Files\SAS\Shared Files\Formats;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Fil es\Smart Projects\IsoBuster;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin\;C:\Program F iles\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\SSH Communications Security\SSH Secure Shell;C:\Program Fi les\Bibtex2html;C:\Graphviz2.20\bin PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC ----------- snip ----------- The directory c:/temp/R-2.11.1 contains a complete customized installation of R, while C:\R\src\R-2.11.1 contains the unpacked R sources. This is on a Windows Vista system. I've updated Rtools to version 2.11. I can supply more information, but I'm not sure what's relevant. I don't think that I should have to place a MkRules file in the gnuwin32 directory, but I tried copying each the MkRules.dist and MkRules.rules files there in turn to MkRules. Neither worked; I apparently got farther copying MkRules.rules to MkRules, but eventually got another error: ----------- snip ----------- C:\R\src\R-2.11.1\src\gnuwin32\installer>make myR IMAGEDIR=c:/temp/R-2.11.1 MDISDI=1 echo "make.packages.html(.Library)" | c:/temp/R-2.11.1/bin/rterm --vanilla --sla ve LC_COLLATE=C Making packages.html ... done adding MD5 checksums perl JRins.pl R-2.11.1 c:/temp/R-2.11.1 1 1 0 R-core "/iscc" R.iss > myR.log /iscc: not found make: *** [myR] Error 127 ----------- snip ----------- Any help would be appreciated. John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel