[Rd] location of Rconfig.h when using architecture-dependent subdirs

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Konis Kjell wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just tried configuring R to use architecture-dependent subdirs
>
>  $ r_arch=x86_64 ./configure --prefix=/u/smat/konis/testdir
>
>
> on a Debain Squeeze box
>
>  $ uname -a
>  Linux smapc007 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 18 02:14:45 UTC 2010 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
>
> After building and installing, the Rconfig.h ended up in
> .../lib/R/include/x86_64 but R.h still includes it as
>
>  #include <Rconfig.h>

That should be OK, though.  etc/Makeconf will include

R_XTRA_CPPFLAGS =  -I$(R_INCLUDE_DIR) -I$(R_INCLUDE_DIR)/x86_64

so Rconfig.h will be found when packages are installed.

> I noticed that the CRAN binary for Mac OS X has the following
> .../lib/R/include/Rconfig.h. What step am I missing that causes this file
> to be generated?

I suspect it is a back-compatibility fix for packages with Makefiles 
that don't use R_XTRA_CPPFLAGS.

I don't have that file on my Mac build (nor my R 2.12.0 Windows 
builds, both of which use subarchitectures) and I've never seen an 
issue.

>
> Thanks,
> Kjell
>
>
> /* This is an automatically generated universal stub for
> architecture-dependent headers. */
> #ifdef __i386__
> #include "i386/Rconfig.h"
> #elif defined __ppc__
> #include "ppc/Rconfig.h"
> #elif defined __ppc64__
> #include "ppc64/Rconfig.h"
> #elif defined __x86_64__
> #include "x86_64/Rconfig.h"
> #elif defined __arm__
> #include "arm/Rconfig.h"
> #else
> #error "Unsupported architecture."
> #endif
>
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