[R-pkg-devel] R CMD build with configure-args

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 July 2015 at 17:42, Russell Almond wrote:
| Thanks for the suggestion.  I do have a configure script (that is what 
| is reading the --with-netica arg) but I didn't think about searching the 
| standard install locations.  I can probably use that to work around this 
| problem.
| 
| However, that doesn't completely solve the problem.  If I want to force 
| the configure script to use a non-standard location (say to use an 
| experimental version of the library), I still need to be able to pass 
| configure args to INSTALL and check.  I admit the need for doing this 
| with build is a little bit less clear, although it is also unclear why 
| build (which is making a source tarball) needs to compile the C code.

Do not forget that you could also use an environment variable for truly
non-standard location -- just like Windoze does for its configure-lacking
existence.

Standards are important, so by all means try to make it work via configure.

Dirk

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