[Rd] one suggestion for R-admin
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch at math.aau.dk
Wed Apr 13 10:12:37 CEST 2005
Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Just one minor point about building bitmap.dll on Windows in
> doc/manual/R-admin.texi:
>
> In lines 601-605:
>
> @item
> You need @code{libpng} and @code{jpeg} sources (available, e.g., from
> @url{http://www.libpng.org}, @url{ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/}[png,jpeg].
> You will need files @file{libpng-1.2.8.tar.gz} and
> @file{jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz} or later.
>
> and lines 699-707:
>
> The file @file{@var{R_HOME}/bin/Rbitmap.dll} is not built automatically:
> instructions on how to build it are in the file @file{bitmap/INSTALL}.
>
> If everything is set up in directory @file{bitmap},
> @example
> make bitmapdll
> @end example
> @noindent
> will work from this directory.
>
> Why not just add the instruction in src/gnuwin32/bitmap/INSTALL into these
> places? It seems like unnecessary work to go find the few lines of
> instruction in a different file... (Especially in the first part quoted
> above: It tells what to get the files, but not where to put them.)
Good suggestion; I've just done it. I think the only reason I didn't do
it before was laziness.
Duncan Murdoch
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