On Aug 23, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Ross Boylan <r...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Configure-and-cleanup > near the start of 1.2.1 Using Makevars says > >> There are some macros which are set whilst configuring the building of >> R itself and are stored in R_HOME/etcR_ARCH/Makeconf. That makefile is >> included as a Makefile after Makevars[.win], and the macros it defines >> can be used in macro assignments and make command lines in the latter. >> > I'm confused. If Makeconf is included after Makevars, then how can > Makevars use macros defined in Makeconf? > Because regular (recursively expanded) variables in makefiles are evaluated lazily (i.e., when substituted). > Or is the meaning only that a variable definition in Makeconf can be > overridden in Makevars? > > Ross Boylan > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
