[Rcpp-devel] question re: LdFlags, RcppLdFlags

[Romain Francois]

Le 10/10/13 00:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
>
> On 10 October 2013 at 00:05, Romain Francois wrote:
> | That will then quickly become a mess. Having the convention
> | package:::LdFlags() was fine.
>
> I agree. It was a perfectly legit use of ::: but then the powers of CRAN do
> other things do we don't agree with but cannot easily alter.
>
> | Or perhaps we could centralize within Rcpp, i.e. have something like:
> |
> | PKG_LIBS = `$(R_HOME)/bin/Rscript -e "Rcpp::LdFlags('foo')"`
> |
> | and we would just have to leverage the inline plugin for package "foo'
> | there.
>
> That's pretty.  For all the Rcpp-using package, we can assume Rcpp to be
> there so it may as well pivot over and call a plugin from 'foo'.

I think it is worth looking in that direction.

> | > So from the Rcpp side we have little choice but to export LdFlags() as others are
> | > calling it, and R CMD check now complains about the use -- unless it is exported.
> |
> | Sure.
>
> The other immediate defensive way would be to use NAMESPACE etc on the client
> package and not load Rcpp and Rcpp$foo but just importFrom() etc what is needed.

Maybe that works.

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