Strongly in favour of Jeroen's suggestions. Thanks for putting them together.
Iñaki On Wed, 14 May 2025 at 15:48, Jeroen Ooms <jeroeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > R-universe builds and checks all CRAN packages on arm64 on Mac, Linux > and soon Windows. It is important that we can identify from a binary > package for which architecture it was built. R inserts this > information into the second part of the "Built:" field in the > DESCRIPTION. For example, packages with compiled code contain: > > Built: R 4.5.0; aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu; 2025-05-05 14:06:56 UTC; unix > > And packages without compiled code contain: > > Built: R 4.5.0; ; 2025-05-08 06:46:33 UTC; unix > > However this is not working for packages that compile something, but > do not have a 'src' dir. I think these packages are supposed to > manually set "NeedsCompilation: yes" in their DESCRIPTION file. Two > suggestions: > > 1. Currently R only records the platform in the mentioned "Built" if > the source package contains a 'src' dir. Could this be improved such > that it also does so for these packages with "NeedsCompilation: yes"? > Here is a two line patch: > https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/199/files > > 2. There are a handful of CRAN packages that have "NeedsCompilation: > yes" but they neither have a 'src' dir nor a 'configure' script. Afaik > this is a contradiction, as there is no place any compilation can be > invoked without either of these files present? I think in most these > cases "NeedsCompilation: yes" is a leftover from older versions. If > so, would it be possible for CMD check to warn against redundant > NeedsCompilation:yes? Here is a script to list packages that currently > use this: https://gist.github.com/jeroen/e8b225e9b1004a16ef90f50700352aa5 > > Thank you > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Iñaki Úcar ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
