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A guide for contributing to R core development
https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/
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Building R #127

Open hturner opened 1 year ago

hturner commented 1 year ago

The guide assumes that there is no previous attempt and the users starts from a clean state. But it might be nice to mention something about how to make sure it is a clean build. original comment by @llrs on #124

On Linux this can be done by deleting (all files under) the build directory - this is an advantage of using a separate build directory.

On Windows, the build is done within the svn directory - best practice to delete the local copy and check out from scratch?

llrs commented 1 year ago

Reviewing this, it if done in the svn directory there is this command svan cleanup to avoid delting the local copy and start from scratch. It deletes anything in the directory that is not tracked by svn and reverts those that are tracked.