[Rd] Two minor build system patches.

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 13:07:56 CEST 2016


On 27/06/2016 6:58 AM, Ray Donnelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I ran into a few problems building R 3.3.1 and came up wth the
> attached patches (fingers crossed they don't get stripped, I've also
> sent this email to Jeroen since that worked last time). Would it be
> possible to review and merge them if they are OK?
>
> The first one uses AC_SEARCH_LIBS instead of AC_CHECK_LIB, looking for
> ncursesw before ncurses since ncurses is usually build with wide
> character support in which case non-w prefixed libraries are not
> created. ArchLinux (and Conda) then make fake ld linker libraries for
> the non-w prefixed ones.
>
> The second patch fixes a typo where CPPFLAGS is misspelt as CPPLAGS
> which causes them to be forgotten about in the middle of configure.
>
>

Your patches were attached.  I'll apply the second one, but I'll leave 
the first one for someone who knows the issues.

Duncan Murdoch



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