[Rd] Bug(?) in Makefile.win

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> I'm working on a package that will need a separate makefile for
> Windows.  However, I'm finding that when I rename the Makefile to
> Makefile.win, it stops working.  (I suspect at least 3 differences so
> far:  the code to convert .a libraries to a .dll doesn't work, and
> some macros like $(CP) and $(RANLIB) don't exist.)
>
> I'd like to submit a bug report, but I want to be sure this isn't "as
> designed" first.
>
> 1.  Should Makefile.win and Makefile perform identically on Windows?

No.  Makefile.win is only designed to be used in the src dir.  If so
it is used (see MakePkg) but a src/Makefile never is.

So they are quite distinct, in my understanding.

You probably want to include MkRules in your own Makefile.win.

> 2.  Where do I go to find where Makefile.win gets invoked, to see if I
> can spot why there'd be a difference?

Read readme.packages or CHANGES, for example

The reason is that many pacakges used to come with quite inappropriate
Makefiles for Windows (and often inappropriate for Windows too).

Brian

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