Several packages in Bioconductor (and possibly CRAN) uses SystemRequirements in DESCRIPTION, but unless the user reads the DESCRIPTION file, this is for naught. Still useful to some people I think.
Best, Kasper On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Greg Minshall <minsh...@acm.org> wrote: > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
