Hello again, before you all try in time consuming ways to find a perfect solution please note:
I just found out my question is of *rhetorical* nature: While I still would like to know whether it's possible to submit a custom "R CMD INSTALL" command for a R extension, the example case I mentioned (the R extension "V8") is hopeless: It really wants not only the INCLUDE header files but the v8.so itself too (which isn't part of the nodejs environment module build with eb). Building my own v8.so is nightmare stuff (e.g. with >1GB of sources to be fetched) and because of that I really want the OS-Library instead. As the extension installer states that would be deb: libv8-dev or libnode-dev (Debian / Ubuntu) or rpm: v8-devel (Fedora, EPEL). So that's that and with best regards, Wolfram From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Wolfram Zieger Sent: Monday, August 12, 2019 2:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [easybuild] RPackage: How to submit special R CMD INSTALL command for R extension Hello, Is there the possibility to submit an individual "R CMD INSTALL" command for a certain R extension? Background: --------------------- The R extension "V8" uses hardcoded Paths to the NodeJS "V8" library in its configure step. However I want it to use the NODEJS environment module instead. This is, how the "configure" script of the R extension "V8" looks: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env bash # ... # If your libv8 is installed in a custom location you need to set # INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via e.g: # R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=/.../include LIB_DIR=/.../lib' # ... PKG_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/v8 -I/usr/include/v8-3.14" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So indeed, as the comment in the header states, the most promising step would be to submit a R CMD INSTALL command - i.e. R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=/.../include LIB_DIR=/.../lib' Is there an elegant way to do this for an RPackage (exts_defaultclass = 'RPackage') ? Else I'd try to patch the "configure" file from the "V8"-R-extension. Thank you and best regards, Wolfram PS: Thanks Kenneth for pointing out my error in regards to the wrong mail address - which also lead to the discovery of a further grave error in my first mail - which now nobody can see any more :) Wolfram Zieger -------------- Senior Systems Engineer IT Services Berlin Phone: +49 30 2007 697 -12 alt. Phone: +49 211 399 223 -45 Fax: +49 30 2007 697 -11 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> science+computing ag/ATOS Geschäftsstelle Berlin Ordensmeisterstraße 15 12099 Berlin, Germany https://de.atos.net/sc ___ ___ /\ \ /\ \ /::\ \ __ /::\ \ /:/\:\ \ /\ \ /:/\:\ \ _\:\-\:\ \ \:\ \___ /:/ \:\ \ /\ \:\ \:\__\ /\___ __\ /:/__/ \:\__\ \:\ \:\ \/__/ \/__/\ \_/ \:\ \ \/__/ \:\ \:\__\ \:\_\ \:\ \ \:\/:/ / \/_/ \:\ \ \::/ / \:\__\ \/__/ \/__/ --== science + computing ==-- an A T O S company
