[Rd] bin/Shlib overrides the variable PKG_LIBS from Makevars
Mstislav Elagin
elagin at wias-berlin.de
Fri Nov 24 17:17:40 CET 2006
Dear developers,
I have got a problem building my shared library via R CMD SHLIB (R
2.4.0 under WinXP), although it worked on R 2.3.0.
I tracked the problem down to the file $(R_HOME)/bin/Shlib that
generates the variable PKG_LIBS and passes it to make on the command
line thus overriding the value specified in Makevars.
I consider this behaviour a bug :), since it is apparently not
documented and, moreover, "Writing R Extensions" states that PKG_LIBS
may be used in Makevars to pass additional parameters to the linker.
Of course, it is possible to put my custom parameters in the variable
EXTRA_LIBS, but this way is not documented either.
WBR
Mstislav Elagin
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