On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:13 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 5 June 2017 at 00:51, Konstantin Sorokin wrote: > | This third party component is a compression library for which my package > | provides bindings and I need to build this library first. Look at the > lines > | starting from > | https://github.com/thekvs/zstdr/blob/8ea428b33d986667494d940c66732d > bbc66871b3/configure.ac#L34 > > The common paradigm is to first build below src/, and to then link via > src/Makevars to the static library you just built. > > I don't have a real go-to example of a package that does this but you could > look into the BioConductor package RGBL (which builds Boost Graph first) > and/or the nloptr package (which, if need be, downloads nlopt and builds > it; > my contribution there was the other part of finding / using a libnlopt if > on > the system). > Thanks, Dirk, I'll look at nloptr package more closely. > > I wondered about this when CRANberries told me about your package. I guess > you can't assume the Zstandard library to be present? Maybe one day the > hybrid approach of nloptr may work for you. > zstandard is a young project and I think it is a bit to early to assume that zstandard library be present in the system. For example on my Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS) I have libzstd0/xenial 0.5.1-1 but the latest stable release has version 1.2. Btw, what about installing cmake on OSX and Solaris in CRAN build farm? Now it is such a ubiquitous and widely used program! -- Konstantin Sorokin [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
