R devel - Sep 2003 - build in directory different from source

When I configure and make R-devel in a directory other than the one 
where I keep the source, there are a few top level files which are not 
copied to the build directory.  The ones I use are  VERSION and 
date-stamp, to help keep track of what I am testing.

Paul Gilbert

Hi Paul,
>>>>> "PaulG" == Paul Gilbert
<pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca>
>>>>>     on Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:55:52 -0400 writes:
    PaulG> When I configure and make R-devel in a directory
    PaulG> other than the one where I keep the source, there are
    PaulG> a few top level files which are not copied to the
    PaulG> build directory.  The ones I use are VERSION and
    PaulG> date-stamp, to help keep track of what I am testing.

That information of these too is combined into
src/include/Rversion.h
(though in C- rather human- readable form).

If R has been built, it's most easily via
   bin/R --version
or more concisely via  sed -n '/^version="/s///p' bin/R

Regards,
Martin