[Rd] Alternative for wildcard gnu extension in Makevars

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> On May 13, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson at ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
>> While at it:  'Makevars' is an R invention (i.e. documentation of it
>> is only available through the R docs), correct?  /Henrik
>>
>
> Well, it's just a Makefile fragment that gets included along with the rest of the Makefiles, so for all practical purposes it's just a Makefile which implicitly includes R's makefile on top so you don't have to do that by hand.

Thanks for confirming.

/Henrik

>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Kevin Ushey <kevinushey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> One other solution that's only a little crazy: you could have a R
>>> function within your package that generates the appropriate (portable)
>>> Makevars, and within the package `configure` script call that
>>> function. For example"
>>>
>>>    R --vanilla --slave -e "source('R/makevars.R'); makevars()"
>>>
>>> And that 'makevars()' function could generate portable
>>> 'Makevars(.win)' files for your package.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Jan van der Laan <rhelp at eoos.dds.nl>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>> Too bad. Since it is only a handful of files, I will probably move them
>>>>> directly into the src directory and prefix them. It would have been nice to
>>>>> have been able to keep them separate.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If it is a couple of files, then you can also just list them in SOURCES (or
>>>> even just OBJECTS, with a .o suffix), and leave them where they are.
>>>>
>>>> Gabor
>>>>
>>>> [...]
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