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user1972382
user1972382

Reputation:

Make R CMD INSTALL call autoconf before ./configure

when I install or check my own R-package using:

devtools::check()

I need to have a configure file in my package. However, it would be useful if R automatically calls autoconf before and then configure. Do you know if this is possible?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 159

Answers (1)

Dirk is no longer here
Dirk is no longer here

Reputation: 368439

That is not really part of the R workflow into which devtools is hooking itself.

In fact, there is open / mostly unanswered proposal I sent as part of this r-package-devel thread. Re-generating configure is another possible use case.

But in the narrow sense, you are expected to call autoconf after you make changes to configure.ac and before you invoke R CMD check (and it doesn't matter whether or not you do this via devtools).

Upvotes: 4

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