[Rd] Problem with WARNING...headers with CRLF line endings

[cstrato]

Dear Simon,

Thank you for this clarification/suggestion, however I am confused. What 
do you mean with "If the file is created automatically then it has no 
business being in the package."?

If you download the source code of my package from:
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.7/bioc/html/xps.html
you will see that this file is not in the package.

However, I could indeed add the corrected files xpsDict.h and 
xpsDict.cxx to the source code of my package. There is only one problem. 
Currently the source code "xps_1.9.6.tar.gz" has a total size of 4MB. 
Adding the corrected files will add another 4MB to the source code.

Best regards
Christian


On 9/14/10 9:59 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2010, at 2:27 PM, cstrato wrote:
>
>> Dear Bill,
>>
>> It would be great if this warning message could at least be suppressed on Windows.
>>
>
> I think you're missing the point - you should be fixing that file instead - it doesn't matter whether you're on Windows or not. If the file is created automatically then it has no business being in the package. Otherwise you should simply post-process it (e.g., as Dirk suggested) after it has been generated but before you create the package - that is the common practice with generated files that need to be part of the distribution.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>>
>> On 9/14/10 2:06 AM, William Dunlap wrote:
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
>>>> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of cstrato
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 2:08 PM
>>>> To: r-devel at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [Rd] Problem with WARNING...headers with CRLF line endings
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> When running R CMD check on Windows XP to test my package I get the
>>>> following warning message:
>>>>
>>>> "* checking line endings in C/C++/Fortran sources/headers ... WARNING
>>>> Found the following sources/headers with CR or CRLF line endings:
>>>>     src/xpsDict.h"
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that this file is created by the compiler
>>>> AUTOMATICALLY
>>>> during the compilation process, and since the file is created
>>>> by VC++ on
>>>> WinXP, it will always have CRLF line endings.
>>>>
>>>> Thus my question is:
>>>> - Is it really necessary to issues this warning message?
>>>> - If yes, could it be suppressed on Windows XP, since there it should
>>>> obviously be no problem.
>>>
>>> Older versions of Sun C compilers would refuse to
>>> compile code with Windows-style line endings.  I don't
>>> know if that is still the case.  One reason to run check
>>> is to see if there are any platform-dependencies in
>>> code on CRAN so the warning should not be suppressed.
>>>
>>> (The S+ package system tries to avoid the problem by changing
>>> line endings on text files when it compiles the package.
>>> It is not trivial to reliably figure out which files are
>>> meant to be text files.)
>>>
>>> Bill Dunlap
>>> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>
>>>>
>>>> One more issue:
>>>> While I have always received this warning on my WinXP
>>>> installation, for
>>>> some lucky reason the warning did until now not appear on the
>>>> Bioconductor Windows server, see BioC 2.6 with R-2.11.1:
>>>> http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/2.6/bioc-LATEST/xps/liver
>>> pool-checksrc.html
>>>>
>>>> However, for some reason on BioC 2.7 running R-2.12.0 this
>>>> warning does
>>>> appear, see:
>>>> http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/2.7/bioc-LATEST/xps/liver
>>> pool-checksrc.html
>>>> For this reason I would  appreciate if there would be a
>>>> possibility to
>>>> suppress this warning message.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Christian
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