Makefiles in contributed packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, U-E59264-Osman F Buyukisik wrote:

> Hello,
>  I have a couple of suggestions that will help persons with
> machines/OSs that use extensions other than ".so" for shared libs:
> 
> 1) Use the variable SHLIBEXT (defined in Makeconf), DONT use "so" or "sl".
> 2) Use the method in "modreg" to load the dynamic lib:
>  .First.lib <- function(lib, pkg) library.dynam("modreg", pkg, lib)
>     DO NOT USE
>     library.dynam("eda.so")
> 
> 
> Now, I have to edit every package Makefile and zzz.R files for
> hpux10.20 installs. 

My experience (doing this for Windows, where it is .dll) suggests

-- in all cases bar funfits I can just delete the Makefile
-- R INSTALL  has a line

    cat `ls ${dir}/*.[RSqrs]` > ${lib}/${pkg}/R/${pkg}

Add an sed command there to change ${lib}.so to ${lib}.sl (or whatever).
[That is not really what is done under Windows, but is effectively what
Guido's Makefile does.]

Package funfits is a bit harder: I just deleted all the unused (with S/R)
source code, keeping the list in OBJS.


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