R CMD INSTALL is sensitive to trailing newlines in DESCRIPTION.in

Kurt Hornik · 2003-09-20T13:13:55Z

>>>>> Henrik Bengtsson writes: > Hi, with R v1.7.1 (=I don't recall I saw it before) I noticed that R CMD > INSTALL sometimes generates nonsense information, e.g. "Bundle: NA", > even if there was a correct DESCRIPTION file too. I turns out that it > happens when a DESCRIPTION.in has empty lines at the end. I have > observed this behavior on both Sun Solaris 9 and Windows XP Pro (but > here I am using unsupported Cygwin w/ perl). > Here is a reproducible example: > ... > Should I report thi

Kurt Hornik

Sat, Sep 20, 2003 6:13 AM

No, as I am about to commit a fix to the Unix INSTALL script :-)

Windows maintainers: I suspect that src/gnuwin32/fixed/dobundle.pl needs
a similar change, perhaps something like

	next if (/^ *$/);

in the loop writing the DESCRIPTION file.

-k

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Henrik Bengtsson R CMD INSTALL is sensitive to trailing newlines in DESCRIPTION.in Sep 19 Kurt Hornik R CMD INSTALL is sensitive to trailing newlines in DESCRIPTION.in Sep 20