Re: [Rd] R_HOME path getting munged in inst/doc/Makefile on Windows

2011-03-22 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > This is a bug in the package: you are required to quote paths in > Makefiles, e.g. to allow for spaces in the path. > > And let's knock the issue of forward and backwards slashes on the head: > they are equivalent on Windows. Despite yo

Re: [Rd] R_HOME path getting munged in inst/doc/Makefile on Windows

2011-03-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is a bug in the package: you are required to quote paths in Makefiles, e.g. to allow for spaces in the path. And let's knock the issue of forward and backwards slashes on the head: they are equivalent on Windows. Despite your perjorative comments, the supplied value of R_HOME is valid.

Re: [Rd] R_HOME path getting munged in inst/doc/Makefile on Windows

2011-03-21 Thread Martin Morgan
On 03/21/2011 07:22 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Mar 21, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: Hello, I have come across two separate packages that have a Makefile in inst/doc which use the R_HOME variable. In both cases, the path to R_HOME gets munged in such a way that commands that includ

Re: [Rd] R_HOME path getting munged in inst/doc/Makefile on Windows

2011-03-21 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have come across two separate packages that have a Makefile in inst/doc > > which use the R_HOME variable. > > > > In both cases, the path to R_HOME gets munged in suc

Re: [Rd] R_HOME path getting munged in inst/doc/Makefile on Windows

2011-03-21 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Mar 21, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > Hello, > > I have come across two separate packages that have a Makefile in inst/doc > which use the R_HOME variable. > > In both cases, the path to R_HOME gets munged in such a way that commands > that include R_HOME fail on Windows: > > For

[Rd] R_HOME path getting munged in inst/doc/Makefile on Windows

2011-03-21 Thread Dan Tenenbaum
Hello, I have come across two separate packages that have a Makefile in inst/doc which use the R_HOME variable. In both cases, the path to R_HOME gets munged in such a way that commands that include R_HOME fail on Windows: For example, one Makefile, for the xmapcore package ( https://hedgehog.fh