[Rd] Alternative for wildcard gnu extension in Makevars

[Jan van der Laan]

On 13-05-15 19:45, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 13 May 2015 at 10:10, Kevin Ushey wrote:
> | One other solution that's only a little crazy: you could have a R
> | function within your package that generates the appropriate (portable)
> | Makevars, and within the package `configure` script call that
> | function. For example"
> |
> |     R --vanilla --slave -e "source('R/makevars.R'); makevars()"
> |
> | And that 'makevars()' function could generate portable
> | 'Makevars(.win)' files for your package.
>
> Seconded.  I do exactly that in another recent package where I needed another
> "verboten" idiom available only in the widespread and feature-rich GNU make
> but not the so-much-more constrained basic make: if statements.
>
> See https://github.com/eddelbuettel/Rblpapi/blob/master/configure where I
> need to encode 32 or 64 in the name of shared library.  By relying on Rscript
> I code around the constraint of not having GNU make.   [ That is still a
> non-CRAN package but for an unrelated, different reason. ]
>

Kevin, Dirk,

I finally opted for this solution. Thanks!

Jan