hi. i'm building a package using autotools. to propagate the package version number from configure.ac to DESCRIPTION, i'm using a DESCRIPTION.in file. both of these files are "shar"'d below.
i need to distribute the DESCRIPTION.in file, as ./configure will need it. but, "R CMD check" wants to look at DESCRIPTION, so i've let that also come into the package tarball. however, when i run "R CMD check" with DESCRIPTION.in in the tree, it fails: ---- bash greg-minshalls-mbp: {3359} R CMD check image2k_0.1.tar.gz * using log directory ‘/Users/minshall/src/mine/image2k/buildit/image2k.Rcheck’ * using R version 3.0.3 (2014-03-06) * using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit) * using session charset: UTF-8 Error in if (desc["Priority"] == "base") { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed Execution halted ---- (whereas if i remove DESCRIPTION.in and recreate the tar file, everything is good.) are there any thoughts on what might be the problem? cheers, Greg Minshall ---- # This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may # create directories; files and directories will be owned by you and # have default permissions. # # This archive contains: # # DESCRIPTION # DESCRIPTION.in # echo x - DESCRIPTION sed 's/^X//' >DESCRIPTION << 'END-of-DESCRIPTION' XPackage: image2k XType: Package XTitle: interface between pixmap and Imlib2 and/or MagickWand XVersion: 0.1 XDate: 2014-06-24 XAuthor: Greg Minshall XMaintainer: Greg Minshall <minsh...@acm.org> XDescription: image2k creates pixmaps from any image file that is X supported by the Imlib2 and/or MagickWand libraries (assuming one or X both of these libraries are available on your machine). similarly, X given a pixmap, image2k can write that to an image file using either X Imlib2 and/or MagickWand. (MagickWand is an optional library from X ImageMagick.) XLicense: MIT + file LICENSE XDepends: pixmap END-of-DESCRIPTION echo x - DESCRIPTION.in sed 's/^X//' >DESCRIPTION.in << 'END-of-DESCRIPTION.in' XPackage: image2k XType: Package XTitle: interface between pixmap and Imlib2 and/or MagickWand XVersion: @VERSION@ XDate: 2014-06-24 XAuthor: Greg Minshall XMaintainer: Greg Minshall <minsh...@acm.org> XDescription: image2k creates pixmaps from any image file that is X supported by the Imlib2 and/or MagickWand libraries (assuming one or X both of these libraries are available on your machine). similarly, X given a pixmap, image2k can write that to an image file using either X Imlib2 and/or MagickWand. (MagickWand is an optional library from X ImageMagick.) XLicense: MIT + file LICENSE XDepends: pixmap END-of-DESCRIPTION.in exit ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel