[Phylobase-devl] New phylobase build approach using static libncl (Was: Rcpp and OS X compiliation)

[Ben Bolker]

  fine with me, phylobase passes R CMD check on my system without it.
We can always restore it from SVN if it breaks something, right?

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Hi phylobase'ers,
> 
> On 8 February 2010 at 17:54, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | On 8 February 2010 at 15:40, Peter Cowan wrote:
> | | It appears to be building fine with Mac OS X (i386 & x86_64).  I agreed the
> | | commingled approach is the way to go.  I think this will suit the needs of
> | | our users best.  In fact, I tried it months ago but didn't have success, so I
> | | thank you for your efforts! 
> | 
> | Cool! I didn't know that, so thanks for the thumbs up!
> |  
> | | From my understanding, we don't need all of the source files for our NCL commands. 
> | 
> | Correct!  But I wanted to be careful here. But in fact I think now that move
> | the old 
> |     	
> | 	src/ncl/ 
> | 
> | into 
> | 
> |         src/ncl.original/
> | 
> | and moved the files we need out of it, we can in fact clean up via, say,
> | 
> |         $ svn rm pkg/src/ncl.original
> |         $ svn ci pkg -m'remove unused parts of ncl library'
> | 
> | but I think I should leave that to one of the actual phylobase maintainers.
> 
> I think we can do 
> 
>           $ svn rm pkg/src/ncl.original
> 
> to clean up a little more.  Comments, anyone?
> 
> Dirk
> 
> | | Down the road, we might be able to clean things up a little.  For example
> | | the nxsdistancedatum.cpp file is empty 
> | 
> | Hadn't noticed.
> | 
> | | and nxsemptyblock.cpp appears not to be used either. 
> | 
> | That one actually blocks building which is why I #ifdef'ed it out.
> | 
> | Oh, the sweet sound of progress :)
> | 
> | Dirk
> | 
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