[Rd] R CMD SHLIB

[Thomas Lumley]

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> It is possible to do things like
>
> 	env PKG_LIB="-L/opt/foo/lib -lbar" R CMD SHLIB *.c
>
> to add libraries to the creation of a shared object, but I have from time
> to time wondered if we should allow
>
> 	R CMD SHLIB *.c -L/opt/foo/lib -lbar
>
> not least as users seems to expect it to work.  It looks simple to do (at
> least under Unix) if we pass -L* -l* *.a directly to the link command.
>
> Would this be worthwhile?

Yes.

My only reservation is that users may then expect all compiler/linker 
flags to work, not just -L/-l

 	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle