[R-pkg-devel] windows and configure scripts

Timothy Keitt tke|tt @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sat Aug 7 01:32:15 CEST 2021


Snarky answers aside, it's still a valid question whether it's not just
cleaner in simple cases to run commands from the Makevars file as described
in the extensions doc. Of course there's no particularly useful examples
there and searching 'Makevars' on github (yes tried that) is not very
illuminating as it's too generic.

THK

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 6:00 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> If look closely enough at _Writing R Extensions_ you notice that it
> mentions
> 'configure.win' over half a dozen times.  A powerful trick is to then use
> the
> fact that there are other packages on CRAN, in fact almost 18k of them.
>
> And e.g. this search
>
>   https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acran+configure.win&type=code
>
> find 261 hits within the 'cran' mirror at GitHub for the term
> 'configure.win'.
> Some of those are likely of use to you.
>
> Dirk
>
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