[Rd] cleanup and Makevars

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

> Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>> On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:30 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> <snipped>
>>>> The full Makevars file:
>>>> 
>>>> MYCXXFLAGS=-O0
>>> You do realize that is highly non-portable?
>> 
>> Yes, but I do not know of any other way to downgrade the optimization 
>> level. The SDK I am using breaks (due to memory alignment issues if a 
>> specific optimization flag for GCC is include - the flag is certainly 
>> implied by -O2 and as far as I recall also -O1). I guess the solution  is 
>> to switch to an autoconfigure script. The main reason for not  doing this 
>> is 1) time and actually more 2) the fact that the SDK does  not come with 
>> an ac script.
>> 
>> Thanks for the feedback, Kasper
> <snipped>
>
> I think I probably know about the breakage - gcc 4.x mis-compiles
> the Affymetrix toolkit at the default optimization (-02) shipped with the 
> toolkit. (Prof Ripley's comment was spot-on - why the reluctance
> to just call it the Affymetrix toolkit bundled with the bioconductor
> package affyparser?). I narrowed it down to the strict-aliasing
> option... try '-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing' - it is not portable, but it
> works around the funny way some part of the affy toolkit (actually one
> particular file) is written.
>
> I did report it in the Affy forum and also directly to my Affymetrix
> dev contacts about a year ago; gcc 4 is the default on the mac these
> days, I think?
>
> On a related issue, I have some annoyance with cross-compiling leaving behind 
> *.o files (and *.d, etc) which get in the way of native
> compile and vice versa, and I have been wondering if there is a
> recommended solution? What I am currently doing is to have a

Hopefully the --clean options to INSTALL and SHLIB in R-devel will help.
If they don't examples of what is needed will help improve.

> "Makefile.utils" (I don't want or need a proper Makefile), and do
> 'make -f Makefile.utils clean' when I need to clean up - it is better
> than typing
>  rm -f  *.o *.so *~ *.rc *.d *.dll Makedeps *.def
>
> (particularly with bash's file completion, all I am typing is
> 'make -f M<tab>f<tab> clean' to clean up). I am sure somebody will laugh
> at this...
>
> Hin-Tak
>

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