Thanks. Just me trying to be minimalist and see if I could achieve the aim
without extra files, etc. All I need to do is see if the CXX17 config
option is empty and modify PKG_CPPFLAGS and CXX_STD appropriately. That
means calling R and and implementing an if-else in the Makevars file
outside of an
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 3:47 PM Tim Keitt wrote:
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> As configure is not run on windows, but according to the writing extensions
> docs you can run commands in Makevars, is that not preferable for simple
> cases?
IMHO it's ultimately up to you. Do what makes your life easier as a
package maintaine
Good suggestion. I'll try that.
THK
On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 6:44 PM Gábor Csárdi wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 1:32 AM Timothy Keitt wrote:
> >
> > Snarky answers aside, it's still a valid question whether it's not just
> > cleaner in simple cases to run commands from the Makevars file as
> d
On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 1:32 AM Timothy Keitt wrote:
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> Snarky answers aside, it's still a valid question whether it's not just
> cleaner in simple cases to run commands from the Makevars file as described
> in the extensions doc. Of course there's no particularly useful examples
> there and searc
Snarky answers aside, it's still a valid question whether it's not just
cleaner in simple cases to run commands from the Makevars file as described
in the extensions doc. Of course there's no particularly useful examples
there and searching 'Makevars' on github (yes tried that) is not very
illumina
If look closely enough at _Writing R Extensions_ you notice that it mentions
'configure.win' over half a dozen times. A powerful trick is to then use the
fact that there are other packages on CRAN, in fact almost 18k of them.
And e.g. this search
https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acran+config
