>>>>> "TL" == Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Tue, 16 May 2006 10:15:11 -0700 (PDT) writes:
TL> 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?
TL> Yes.
TL> My only reservation is that users may then expect all
TL> compiler/linker flags to work, not just -L/-l
I had exactly the same thought.
Maybe Brian's proposal can be extended into
"all switches that are not recognized by 'R CMD SHLIB' are
passed to compiler / linker ...."
hmm, or maybe not, since the question quickly become *which* are
passed to compiler and which to linker (and which to both ?) ...
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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