Hi Simon, I'm not sure what you mean by, "any tests you run in configure will ignore it since autoconf only uses LIBS and not PKG_LIBS." I though autoconf used any variable names you tell it to, so that it would use PKG_LIBS if you tell it to.
Also, I'm still not clear as to what a Makevars file is. To clarify, I do understand a Makefile. When GNU's make program is run, it looks for a Makefile and interprets it in ways that are documented very well by GNU. I have yet to find any lead as to what a Makevars file is, what to put in it, what it does, or how it helps in installation with R packages. I can understand how to define variables in it, but the only way I know how to use variables that are defined is by using them in a Makefile. Where and how are variables defined in Makevars used? Sean ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
