[Rd] dos-style line endings in .Rbuildignore result in files not being excluded

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Thanks Bill, but this is 'build'.  It is intended that INSTALL will be an 
R script in R 2.9.0 (actually, we intended it for 2.8.0 but ran out of 
time).

Our recommendation is to install from a tarball, except perhaps during 
package development. So read-only package dirs are not an issue.


On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, William Dunlap wrote:

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
>> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tony Plate
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:40 AM
>> To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Cc: Sebastian P. Luque; Prof Brian Ripley
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] dos-style line endings in .Rbuildignore
>> result in files not being excluded
> ...
>> It was pretty easy for me to get these line endings -- I
>> created the file in GNU Emacs under Windows, and rsync'ed the
>> package directory to a Ubuntu Linux machine.  I went back and
>> checked, and GNU Emacs under Ubuntu did show (DOS) in the
>> status line of the buffer, but I never noticed that while I
>> was trying to figure out why my .Rbuildignore file wasn't
>> having any effect.  (I think I preferred it when Emacs would
>> show ^M at the end of each line in a CRLF file -- not showing
>> that is what I meant by "hiding it from me".)
>
> In the Splus package system INSTALL copies the whole package
> directory to a temp directory before doing any other processing.
> If it sees a 'text' file, as determined by the perl -T (or ! -B) file
> test operators, the copied file will have local line endings.
> We don't use cygwin in the Splus package system, so what the local
> line ending is is clear.  (Copying the entire directory also means
> we can run INSTALL on a read-only package directory and we don't
> leave around *.o or *.obj files that R CMD INSTALL won't like).
>
> Bill Dunlap
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