[Rd] Makevars or congiure for multi platforms

Tadashi Kadowaki tadakado at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 17:44:22 CEST 2008


Prof. Ripley,

Yes, I can configure when I write configure.ac correctly.
But, If you provide all settings in Rconfig.h, I don't have to
write configure.ac. That is a big benefit for package developers.
Actually I haven't written correct configure.ac yet.

Regards,

Tadashi Kadowaki

2008/6/10 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Tadashi Kadowaki wrote:
>
>> Prof Ripley,
>>
>> I fixed and uploaded.
>>
>> However, it is still useful for development of a package that is close
>> to R core,
>> if Rconfig.h contains all definitions in config.h. If Rconfig
>> contained all information,
>> I didn't have to refer the private header directory.
>
> But your package can run its own configure to find such things itself. Which
> entries were you wanting to use?
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tadashi Kadowaki
>>
>> 2008/6/9 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>>>
>>> Private headers are just that, private.  They are not intended to be
>>> available to packages, and not installed by the standard R makefiles on
>>> either Unix-alikes or Windows.
>>>
>>> I don't see it documented that they are available on MacOS X, and will
>>> leave
>>> it to that platform's maintainers as to why they have been installed on
>>> that
>>> platform.
>>>
>>> You need to rewrite your code to use only documented headers and entry
>>> points if you intend to distribute it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Tadashi Kadowaki wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Laurent and Tobias
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>>
>>>> I could make configure script and upload it to r-forge.
>>>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/pdf2/
>>>> It still works only on mac by default.
>>>> For Linux and Windows, it needs additional option like
>>>> -----
>>>> R CMD INSTALL
>>>> --configure-vars="R_INTERNAL_HEADER_DIR=/path/to/src/include"
>>>> pdf2/pkg
>>>> -----
>>>> ,where /path/to/src/include is the directory in the R source.
>>>> I didn't check it for Linux and Windows...
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Tadashi Kadowaki
>>>>
>>>> 2008/6/8 Laurent Gautier <lgautier at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2008/6/7  <r-devel-request at r-project.org>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Message: 11
>>>>>> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 03:38:23 +0900
>>>>>> From: "Tadashi Kadowaki" <tadakado at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Subject: [Rd] Makevars or congiure for multi platforms
>>>>>> To: r-devel at r-project.org
>>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>>>      <dcb3073c0806061138n2f376a24r100f281ae248497a at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As previously submitted, I wrote an extending pdf device to embed
>>>>>> pop up text and web links.
>>>>>> (Patches are available at http://pdf2.r-forge.r-project.org/patches)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now, I'm making a library version of the pdf device.
>>>>>> However, with my skill, I'm not sure about writing Makevars or
>>>>>> configure
>>>>>> file
>>>>>> for multi platforms. A following line in Makevars works on my mac,
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>> PKG_CFLAGS=-I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/PrivateHeaders
>>>>>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>>>>> -----
>>>>>> (Note that the PrivateHeaders directory contains Fileio.h and Defn.h)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My question is,
>>>>>> How do I write Makevars or congiure for Unix/Linux and Windows?
>>>>>> I would like to support those platforms in my library.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could try looking into a package that has configure, configure.win
>>>>> and has built binaries for macosX and windows. Try the package 'rgl'
>>>>> on CRAN, for example.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hoping this helps,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> L.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tadashi Kadowaki
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>> --
>>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>>>
>>
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
>



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