From ross at biostat.ucsf.edu  Sat Aug 24 01:53:35 2013
From: ross at biostat.ucsf.edu (Ross Boylan)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:53:35 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Makevars and Makeconf sequencing
Message-ID: <1377302015.1062.38.camel@localhost>

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Configure-and-cleanup
near the start of 1.2.1 Using Makevars says

> There are some macros which are set whilst configuring the building of
> R itself and are stored in R_HOME/etcR_ARCH/Makeconf. That makefile is
> included as a Makefile after Makevars[.win], and the macros it defines
> can be used in macro assignments and make command lines in the latter.
> 
I'm confused.  If Makeconf is included after Makevars, then how can
Makevars use macros defined in Makeconf?

Or is the meaning only that a variable definition in Makeconf can be
overridden in Makevars?

Ross Boylan



[Rd] Makevars and Makeconf sequencing
Ross Boylan