From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Thu Sep 25 11:20:55 2003
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Thu Sep 25 10:20:07 2003
Subject: [Rd] build in directory different from source
In-Reply-To: <3F71B078.4000209@bankofcanada.ca>
References: <3F71B078.4000209@bankofcanada.ca>
Message-ID: <16242.42343.463098.225509@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Hi Paul,

>>>>> "PaulG" == Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca>
>>>>>     on Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:55:52 -0400 writes:

    PaulG> When I configure and make R-devel in a directory
    PaulG> other than the one where I keep the source, there are
    PaulG> a few top level files which are not copied to the
    PaulG> build directory.  The ones I use are VERSION and
    PaulG> date-stamp, to help keep track of what I am testing.

That information of these too is combined into
src/include/Rversion.h
(though in C- rather human- readable form).

If R has been built, it's most easily via
   bin/R --version
or more concisely via  sed -n '/^version="/s///p' bin/R

Regards,
Martin


[Rd] build in directory different from source
Martin Maechler