On 6 June 2008 at 13:13, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | > On 6 June 2008 at 11:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | > | Isn't this what Type: Frontend is for? That gives you complete control | > | and would seem appropriate for both of your examples. | > | > Interesting. But the R Extensions manual says | > | > 1.10.1 Frontend | > --------------- | > | > This is a rather general mechanism, designed for adding new front-ends | > such as the *gnomeGUI* package. If a `configure' file is found in the | > top-level directory of the package it is executed, and then if a | > `Makefile' is found (often generated by `configure'), `make' is called. | > If `R CMD INSTALL --clean' is used `make clean' is called. No other | > action is taken. | > | > I am talking about the need for 'other action' such as 'make install', say. | > | > Are you suggesting I shoehorn what I want done into the main 'make' target ? | | Yes. I don't see it as 'shoehorn' -- it is the install step.
I have to think about this. I was envisioning a degree of freedom between 'make' and 'make install'. I may need some optionality here. Anyway -- thanks for the suggestions. It is indeed very close to what I had asked for. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
