Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I think this should now work (one of several 'FIXME' issues addressed in > the latest commit -- there are still some to go, but 2.9.0 is not due > for 6 weeks).
tested and confirmed with R devel revision r48059; more than one configure arguments are now handled correctly. Thank you for the fix! Regards, Matthias > It is always useful to have a real test example, though. (I used rgl in > relation to some discussion about paths on r-sig-mac.) > > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> That version of R is 'under development' and the INSTALL file says >> >> ## FIXME: this loses quotes, so filepaths with spaces in get broken up >> >> so it is I think the same as a known issue. >> >> The whole package installation process has been completely >> reconstructed for R-devel, and the process is not quite finished. >> And this is a low priority as there are effective workarounds. >> >> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, ml-it-r-de...@epigenomics.com wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> trying >>> to install a package containing C code and requiring non-default >>> configure argument >>> settings the incantation (this has worked for R <= 2.8.1 on the same >>> architectures) >>> >>> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="--with-opt1 --with-opt2" packname >>> >>> does always result in a warning >>> Warning: unknown option '--with-opt2' >>> >>> and consequently the option is ignored. Reverting the order of >>> options results in the now >>> last option to be ignored. Alternative quoting has not provided a >>> solution. >>> >>> Using >>> >>> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args=--with-opt1 >>> --configure-args=--with-opt2 packname >>> >>> does provide a workaround, though. Is this the (new to me) and only >>> intended way to >>> provide more than one configure argument? >>> I checked ?INSTALL and the referenced R-admin sec. 'Configuration >>> variables' but still am >>> not clear on this. >>> >>> Regards, Matthias >>> >>> >>> R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-02 r48041) >>> on Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 >>> >>> -- >>> Matthias Burger Project Manager/ Biostatistician >>> Epigenomics AG Kleine Praesidentenstr. 1 10178 Berlin, Germany >>> phone:+49-30-24345-0 fax:+49-30-24345-555 >>> http://www.epigenomics.com matthias.bur...@epigenomics.com >>> -- >>> Epigenomics AG Berlin Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 75861 >>> Vorstand: Geert Nygaard (CEO/Vorsitzender) >>> Oliver Schacht PhD (CFO) >>> Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Rolf Krebs (Chairman/Vorsitzender) >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> > -- Matthias Burger Project Manager/ Biostatistician Epigenomics AG Kleine Praesidentenstr. 1 10178 Berlin, Germany phone:+49-30-24345-0 fax:+49-30-24345-555 http://www.epigenomics.com matthias.bur...@epigenomics.com -- Epigenomics AG Berlin Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 75861 Vorstand: Geert Nygaard (CEO/Vorsitzender) Oliver Schacht PhD (CFO) Aufsichtsrat: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Rolf Krebs (Chairman/Vorsitzender) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
