From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Wed Jan 26 08:34:39 2000
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:34:39 +0100 (CET)
Subject: passing through configure parameters during module installation?
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>>>>> Marcus G Daniels writes:

> This patch makes it possible do module installs in this way:

> $ R INSTALL --with-hdf5=/packages .

> Is there a better/conventional way to do this kind of thing that I'm
> not seeing?

The idea is very nice, but maybe not general enough.  Who knows, but
there may be someone who wants to pass an argument to configure that
does not start with `--with'.

I'd prefer something like

	--configure-args="..."

Would that be o.k. too?

-k
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passing through configure parameters during module installation?
Kurt Hornik