All right, thank you very much.

I figured that oligo can live without configure... But it does not seem to
be the case for affyio...

Cheers, b

On Friday, 27 January 2012, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Benilton Carvalho
> <beniltoncarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, this is with the CRAN build... but... is it a bug if documented?
>>
>> The "R Installation and Administration" manual says on Section 2.6:
>>
>> <quote>
>> R CMD INSTALL will detect if more than one build is installed and try
>> to install packages with the appropriate library objects for each.
>> This will not be done if the package has an executable configure
>> script or a src/Makefile file. In such cases you can install for extra
>> builds by
>>
>>     R --arch=name CMD INSTALL --libs-only pkg1 pkg2 ...
>> </quote>
>>
>> which is the case for affyio and affy (so, they only get installed
>> under the architecture used to call the installer). This will also be
>> the case for oligo.... however, gcrma does not have a configure (nor a
>> Makefile)... and that's what rises the whole issue.
>>
>> So, back to my initial point, it would be nice if there was something
>> we could add to the packages to work around this issue...
>
> Agreed. There is no such thing now. Both CRAN and Bioconductor use
> external shell scripts to take a source tarball and generate a
> multi-arch binary (.tgz) tarball.
> Dan
>
>
>>
>> b
>>
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