[R-pkg-devel] SystemRequirements and .R/Makevars

[Martyn Plummer]

Dear Ramon,

You should be able to work around this by putting the line

CXX_STD = CXX11

in the package's Makevars file (or Makevars.win for Windows). The idea
of putting SystemRequirements: C++ in the DESCRIPTION file was to
provide a shortcut for packages that have no Makevars file. From your
description, it sounds like this shortcut has the unintended consequence
of overriding the user's Makevars file.

I will look into it, but you can make this task a lot easier by telling
me which packages using C++11 are affected and give me some examples of
specific Makevars entries that are ignored.

Martyn 

On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 12:01 +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Some of my packages use
> 
> SystemRequirements: C++11
> 
> in the DESCRIPTION. But then .R/Makevars seems to be ignored (e.g., flags
> such as -Wall or using clang) in all that concerns C++ (only CXX and
> CXXFLAGS are ignored, not CC or CFLAGS). So I keep commenting that line for
> normal development and uncommenting it for final checking before release.
> 
> 
> I vaguely remember reading somewhere this is the way things work, but this
> is not what I understand from reading again
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html#Using-C_002b_002b11-code.
> 
> After googling I have not been able to locate anything, and since I guess
> it is probably common to use both C++11 and a custom .R/Makevars I think
> something is wrong somewhere in my setup. But I have no idea what. I am
> using Debian (a mix of testing and unstable), both with stock Debian R and
> with custom built Rs.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> R.
> 
> 

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