[R] Makeconf on Windows - where?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Mar 30 18:22:13 CEST 2007


On 3/30/2007 11:53 AM, Paul Roebuck wrote:
> Read in the Windows release notes for 2.4.0 that:
> 
>   There is a new file etc/Makeconf that provides an
>   approximation to the Unix version and may help with
>   src/Makefile's.
> 
> Yet when I look at the CRAN binary I have for 2.4.1patched,
> there are five files in the $R_HOME/etc directory, but no
> Makeconf. Is the file only available with custom installs?

That may be an oversight that it never got added to the build script for 
the installer.  I'll take a look and see if it would be useful with a 
binary install.

Duncan Murdoch



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