On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Ross Boylan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 19:36 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> >> | If you type "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" in the directory where >> all >> | that stuff got opened up (the one "above" the debian subdirectory), >> it > For dpkg-buildpackage I always use -D, which checks that the build > dependencies are present. Particularly if you're going through the > build the first time, it's a great check.
Another option for installing the necessary dependencies without actually doing the build of the Debian/Ubuntu package is wajig build-depend r-base which I think corresponds to apt-get build-dep r-base > The man page is unclear whether -D is part of the default behavior; I > think I've found that it is not. > > I also use -uc -b, though your style may differ. See man > dpkg-buildpackage for more. > > -r is one option I don't use; at least on lenny, fakeroot is the > default. > > Continuing my string of non-R specific responses.... > > Ross > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
