From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Fri Aug 29 17:47:26 1997
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 18:47:26 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: R-alpha: Can we "require"  1) GNU make,  2) Perl
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970825094416.1542D-100000@avon> (message from
 Thomas Lumley on Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:48:15 -0700 (PDT))
Message-ID: <199708291647.SAA08655@sophie.ethz.ch>

Just to 'clean up' the week,  a summary about my 'RFC' :

The reactions I got (not all went thru  R-devel):

1) perl is ok  (--> new 'R doc/man' format by Fritz Leisch & Kurt Hornik ...)

2) GNU make is not really ok.

 Some people like to use their vendor's make rather than GNU's
	[I myself have changed this behavior a few years ago;
	 here, we all PATH such that GNU's make comes BEFORE Sun's make ..]

==> I'll try not to rely on GNU make at all.

	[[Actually I haven't done too much yet, 
	  just created an  etc/Makefile and
	  moved things from $RHOME/Makefile there..]]


--- Martin
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SUMMARY: R-alpha: Can we "require" 1) GNU make, 2) Perl
Martin Maechler