On 30/07/2015 4:52 PM, Russell Almond wrote: > The behavior changed somewhere along the line.
If you don't want to spend the time to answer a simple question like "when did you see that?", why do you expect others to spend time solving your problem? Duncan Murdoch I think it is related to > the version bump from 3.1 to 3.2, but it could have been earlier. > > It used to be when I wanted to release a version of my package I would run: > > INSTALL > check > build > INSTALL --build (on each of a Windows and Mac box). > > to create source and binary tarballs. > > I was never quite sure if I needed the check syntax or the INSTALL > syntax for build. Somewhere along the line it stopped working. I'm not > sure exactly when, because I was working around by creating the source > tarball on the Windows box where I was using an environmental variable > instead of the command line arg. > > I suspect that what must have happened is that previously build did not > try to recompile the package (or used my source directory where the > binaries where already in place). Now it does, so it would probably be > useful to add the --install-args switch. > > --Russell > > > On 07/30/2015 04:08 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> On 30/07/2015 2:53 PM, Russell Almond wrote: >>> >>> I've got a package that uses C code to link R to a third-party library. >>> >>> I've set up my configure script to take an argument --with-netica >>> which passes the location of the library, header files, &c. >>> >>> So I can install the package using: >>> >>> $ R CMD INSTALL RNetica >>> --configure-args='--with-netica=/home/ralmond/software/Netica_API_504/' >>> >>> and check the packge (build the manual) using: >>> >>> $ R CMD check RNetica >>> --install-args="--configure-args='--with-netica=/home/ralmond/software/Netica_API_504/'" >>> >>> My problem comes when I want to build a source tarball for >>> distribution. I used to use: >>> >>> $ R CMD build RNetica >>> --install-args="--configure-args='--with-netica=/home/ralmond/software/Netica_API_504/'" >> >> When you say "used to use", when was that? There was no --install-args >> option in R 3.0. I think there should be, and I can add it, but I'd >> like to know if it was removed for a reason. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >>> >>> but that generates an error: >>> >>> gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -I. -I/src -fpic >>> -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat >>> -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c Cases.c -o Cases.o >>> In file included from Cases.c:18:0: >>> ./RNetica.h:4:20: fatal error: Netica.h: No such file or directory >>> #include <Netica.h> >>> ^ >>> >>> basically, it the Includes directory is not getting set correctly. If >>> I use the same syntax as the INSTALL (i.e., just configure-args and >>> not the install-args wrapper) I get the same error message. R CMD >>> INSTALL --build creates a binary tarball and not a source. >>> >>> I think used to work correctly under R 3.1. Did I miss something in >>> the release notes? >>> >>> I'm having this problem under Ubuntu 14.4 (I think I'm also having the >>> problem on Mac OS X; I'm not having the problem under Windows, but >>> mostly because I'm using an environmental variable instead of a >>> command line argument to pass the location of the 3rd party library.) >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help. >>> >> > ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
