On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Douglas Bates wrote: [...]
> However, I think it exposes a problem with R CMD INSTALL. If there is > a LinkingTo: directive in the DESCRIPTION file and the package's > include directory cannot be found I think that R CMD INSTALL should > abort. That was a deliberate design decision: LinkingTo means 'add to the C include path if found'. I think rather a package that cannot work without the link should ensure that the compilation fails cleanly -- I was trying to allow the package writer the freedom to ignore the link if it was not available. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
