[Rd] Problem with .First.lib while running R CMD check

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:

> Thanks very much Martin.  I think you've hit on it.  The problem seems 
> to have to do with the order in which I install Hmisc using regular 
> (non-shared) R (installed the usual Debian way) with regard to when I 
> run CMD check under R-devel.  I configured R-devel using --enable-shared 
> (if this matters) and ran R-devel CMD check "fresh" and all seems to be 
> well.  Thanks for your insight.  In the future I think I'll just remove 
> the *.o files from regular R before running CMD check.  I am surprised 
> that R-devel and R 1.9 are inconsistent on this point.  -Frank

Take a look at the NEWS file.  In R-devel, if --enable-R-shared (sic) is 
specified libR.so is always used, even by R.bin.  There are several 
reasons for the change, one of which is that libR.so actually gets tested.

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