[R-pkg-devel] Proper way to cleanup after build third party components?

[Konstantin Sorokin]

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:13 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 5 June 2017 at 00:51, Konstantin Sorokin wrote:
> | This third party component is a compression library for which my package
> | provides bindings and I need to build this library first. Look at the
> lines
> | starting from
> | https://github.com/thekvs/zstdr/blob/8ea428b33d986667494d940c66732d
> bbc66871b3/configure.ac#L34
>
> The common paradigm is to first build below src/, and to then link via
> src/Makevars to the static library you just built.
>
> I don't have a real go-to example of a package that does this but you could
> look into the BioConductor package RGBL (which builds Boost Graph first)
> and/or the nloptr package (which, if need be, downloads nlopt and builds
> it;
> my contribution there was the other part of finding / using a libnlopt if
> on
> the system).
>

Thanks, Dirk, I'll look at nloptr package more closely.


>
> I wondered about this when CRANberries told me about your package. I guess
> you can't assume the Zstandard library to be present?  Maybe one day the
> hybrid approach of nloptr may work for you.
>

zstandard is a young project and I think it is a bit to early to assume
that zstandard library be present in the system. For example on my Ubuntu
16.04 (LTS) I have libzstd0/xenial 0.5.1-1 but the latest stable release
has version 1.2.

Btw, what about installing cmake on OSX and Solaris in CRAN build farm? Now
 it is such a ubiquitous and widely used program!

-- 
Konstantin Sorokin

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