R does not handle package non-ASCII DESCRIPTION files properly

[Markus Hoenicka]

Am 2020-05-01 12:44, schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin:
> Am 30.04.2020 um 22:17 schrieb Marco Atzeri:
>> Am 30.04.2020 um 17:28 schrieb Markus Hoenicka:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I've contacted the processx package maintainer on a problem reported 
>>> here previously (see 
>>> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-April/244667.html). He 
>>> suggested to try the github version but that triggered a different 
>>> type of error which does not seem to be package-specific.
> 
> the original problem is caused by the lack of $(LIBR)
> after $(CLIENT_OBJECTS) in src/Makevars
> 
> Cygwin as Windows need the link library after the objects.
> 
> $ grep SHLIB_LINK Makevars*
> Makevars:       $(SHLIB_LINK) -o client$(SHLIB_EXT) $(CLIENT_OBJECTS)
> $(PKG_LIBS)
> Makevars.win:   $(SHLIB_LINK) -o client$(SHLIB_EXT) $(CLIENT_OBJECTS)
> $(LIBR) $(SHLIB_LIBADD) $(PKG_LIBS)
> 
> 
> the documentations
> 
> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Using-Makevars
> 
> suggest the form
> 
> $(SHLIB): $(OBJECTS)
>         $(SHLIB_LINK) -o $ $(OBJECTS) $(ALL_LIBS)
> 
> and this should work as
>  /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf
> defines
> 
> ALL_LIBS = $(PKG_LIBS) $(SHLIB_LIBADD) $(LIBR) $(LIBINTL) $(LIBS)
> 
> 
> so try with
> $(SHLIB_LINK) -o client$(SHLIB_EXT) $(CLIENT_OBJECTS) $(ALL_LIBS)

Hi Marco,

thanks for looking into this. I can confirm that the processx package 
compiles just fine with the modification of Makevars that you suggested. 
I'll report this to the processx maintainer and ask him to fix this.

regards,
Markus

-- 
Markus Hoenicka
http://www.mhoenicka.de
AQ score 38