[Rd] R 2.9.0 devel: package installation with configure-args option

[ml-it-r-devel at epigenomics.com]

Hi,

trying
to install a package containing C code and requiring non-default configure argument
settings the incantation (this has worked for R <= 2.8.1 on the same architectures)

R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="--with-opt1 --with-opt2" packname

does always result in a warning
Warning: unknown option '--with-opt2'

and consequently the option is ignored. Reverting the order of options results in the now
last option to be ignored. Alternative quoting has not provided a solution.

Using

R CMD INSTALL --configure-args=--with-opt1 --configure-args=--with-opt2 packname

does provide a workaround, though. Is this the (new to me) and only intended way to
provide more than one configure argument?
I checked ?INSTALL and the referenced R-admin sec. 'Configuration variables' but still am
not clear on this.

Regards, Matthias


R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-02 r48041)
on Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10

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