On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, cstrato wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> When porting my package to WinXP I have the following problem:
> I need to create an environment variable "MYVAR=c:\mypath" which I have
> saved in the control panel "System->My Computer" (under the `Advanced' tab).
>
> I have two files which need to access MYVAR: config.win, Makefile.win
>
> While "config.win" does recognize MYVAR correctly, "Makefile.win" is not
> able to recognize MYVAR, when I do:
> "R CMD INSTALL mypkg".
> I need to add the line "MYVAR=C:\\mypath" to "Makefile.win" for "R CMD
> INSTALL" to work.
>
> Interestingly, when I "cd ./src" and call from the DOS command line:
> "NMAKE /f "Makefile.win" CFG="Release"
> then "Makefile.win" does recognize MYVAR correctly.
>
> Do you know what I need to do so that "Makefile.win" recognizes MYVAR?
Well, how are you asking it to recognize it? (We do expect you to provide
enough details to avoid such questions.) $(MYVAR) is a make variable, and
${MYVAR} is an environment variable. Quite possibly
MYVAR=${MYVAR}
is all you need to add.
BTW, there are dozens of examples in the packages on CRAN -- RGtk2 is one.
And we strongly discourage the use of Makefile.win: Makevars.win suffices
for all but expert developers.
--
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