On Tue, 16 May 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> It is possible to do things like
>
> env PKG_LIB="-L/opt/foo/lib -lbar" R CMD SHLIB *.c
>
> to add libraries to the creation of a shared object, but I have from time
> to time wondered if we should allow
>
> R CMD SHLIB *.c -L/opt/foo/lib -lbar
>
> not least as users seems to expect it to work. It looks simple to do (at
> least under Unix) if we pass -L* -l* *.a directly to the link command.
>
> Would this be worthwhile?
Yes.
My only reservation is that users may then expect all compiler/linker
flags to work, not just -L/-l
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle
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