Re: Tweaking installation of R packages

["Mike M. Volokhov" <mike.volokhov%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:26:20 +0200 Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it's sometimes required to add additional flags to R CMD INSTALL. 
> Particularly,
> Rgraphviz [1] package that I'm currently working on requires --configure-args
> for setting graphviz path. It seem overkill to create a framework for these
> options so how about just passing them to R_PKG_INSTALL_ARGS?
> 
> RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/math/R/Makefile.extension,v
...
> -R_PKG_INSTALL_ARGS=  -l ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/${R_LIB}
> +R_PKG_INSTALL_ARGS+= -l ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/${R_LIB}

After playing with options little bit more I found that the
following patch may look more consistent:

RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/math/R/Makefile.extension,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -r1.17 Makefile.extension
--- Makefile.extension  11 Sep 2012 23:04:16 -0000      1.17
+++ Makefile.extension  1 Jan 2013 00:02:56 -0000
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
 R_INST_DIRS?=          ${R_PKGNAME}
 R_HOMEPAGE_BASE=       http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages
 R_PKG_INSTALL_ARGS=    -l ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}/${R_LIB}
+.if defined(CONFIGURE_ARGS)
+R_PKG_INSTALL_ARGS+=   --configure-args='${CONFIGURE_ARGS}'
+.endif
 
 GENERATE_PLIST+=       ( cd ${DESTDIR}${PREFIX}; for dir in ${R_INST_DIRS}; do 
\
        ${FIND} ${R_LIB}/$${dir} \( -type f -o -type l \) -print; done ) | 
${SORT} -u;

--
Mishka.