On 20 December 2023 at 11:10, Steven Scott wrote:
| The Boom package builds a library against which other packages link. The
| library is built using the Makevars mechanism using the line
|
| ${AR} rc $@ $^
|
| A user has asked me to change 'rc' to 'rcs' so that 'ranlib' will be run on
| the archive. This is apparently needed for certain flavors of macs. I'm
| hoping someone on this list can comment on the portability of that change
| and whether it would negatively affect other platforms. Thank you.
Just branch for macOS. Here is a line I 'borrowed' years ago from data.table
and still use for packages needed to call install_name_tool on macOS. You
could have a simple 'true' branch of the test use 'rcs' and the 'false'
branch do what you have always done. Without any portability concerns.
>From https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/blob/master/src/Makevars.in#L14
and indented here for clarity
if [ "$(OS)" != "Windows_NT" ] && [ `uname -s` = 'Darwin' ]; then \
install_name_tool -id data_table$(SHLIB_EXT) data_table$(SHLIB_EXT);
\
fi
Dirk
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