[R-SIG-Win] Some suggested changes to Windows makefiles with respect to experimental toolchain

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 08/09/2015 7:07 PM, Avraham Adler wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I didn't write the make files, and can't answer your questions.  You're
>> on your own here if nobody else pipes up.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
> 
> Completely understood. Would you suggest that I cross-post the
> question to R-devel to enhance the possibility of somone piping up?r are

No.  You should go into svn and see who wrote the parts of the makefiles
that you are editing (probably Brian Ripley, but not necessarily) and
ask them.

> 
> Also, if the patch works under he current toolchain as well, I would
> still want to submit it, if that is acceptable, as 1) the benefits of
> LTO will still be recognized in the core of R and 2) it makes external
> BLAS compilation easier.
> 

I would commit the patch if it made *no* changes to the current
compilation scheme.  I would not commit it if it made changes that I
can't judge.

Duncan Murdoch