[Rd] best way to build from Git

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 12:39 PM Martin Maechler
<maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> As Frederik notes / ask as well about it:
> R-core people typically never build "inside the source tree"
> (not "polluting" the source tree by built stuff)
> but rather in separate build directory, as I'm pretty sure we've
> recommended for years.
>
> It would probably really be useful, if Lionel (or someone else)
> updated his nice write-up and auxiliary {script / make} - files
> so things work too when build with "src-dir != build-dir".

I am not sure what you mean, what is wrong with this build directory?
https://bookdown.org/lionel/contributing/building-r.html#sec:build

Gabor

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