hi. i'm working on a package which only works if one (or both) of two libraries (Imlib2 and MagickWand) exist on the machine on which the package is compiled and executed. as currently written, the program purposely generates an error at *compile* time if neither library is available (thinking the earlier the user is notified, the less frustrating).
is there a way of specifying this dependency in, say, the DESCRIPTION file? (seems unlikely, as this is what the whole autotools/configure.ac framework is supposed to deal with.) or, should i take out the compile time error (maybe replace my #error with a #warning), and just generate at error at run time? (this will require me to figure out what that means for build tests/, but obviously some sort of hack is doable.) cheers, Greg ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
