[fink:package-submissions] #4907 r-base34-3.4.0-1

- **Group**: Undergoing_Validation --> Awaiting_Update_from_Submitter
- **Comment**:

Since as long as I can remember, fink's R packages have always had patches to change SHLIB_EXT from .so (as would be automatically determined by the configure scripts) to hardcode as .dylib. According to the documentation:

SHLIB_EXT     file extension (including '.') for shared objects

but there is a separate variable:

DYLIB_EXT     file extension (including '.') for dynamic libraries

which is set to .dylib by the configure scripts already. DYLIB_EXT is the one used for building the libR.dylib, whereas SHLIB_EXT is used for building runtime-loadable modules, which is in agreement with their documentation. Why do we bother changing SHLIB_EXT? A .so extension is standard for OS X runtime-loadable modules, and that is how the upstream R binary package is configured as well.

We can't change this extension for an existing r-baseXX package because it propagates into dependent cran packages. But cran packages seem to be versioned, so a new r-baseXY could stop dragging along this patch and not break anything as far as I can tell.

I don't use R much (and I'm not sure what if any binary extensions I actually use), so maybe someone who uses this thing could comment whether we still need to drag this patch along into a new version.



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** [package-submissions:#4907] r-base34-3.4.0-1**

**Status:** open
**Group:** Awaiting_Update_from_Submitter
**Created:** Fri Apr 21, 2017 03:23 PM UTC by Jack Howarth
**Last Updated:** Fri Apr 21, 2017 03:30 PM UTC
**Owner:** BABA Yoshihiko


Packaging for r-base34 for the 3.4.0 release. Tested with 'fink -m' on 10.12.


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