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Is there anything you can use R-dev for without musl-dev?

David Hannasch requested to merge dHannasch/aports:R-dev-depends-on-musl-dev into master

I might be missing something here and I certainly don't want to add an unnecessary dependency if there are use-cases for using R-dev without musl-dev, but I can't figure out how you could actually use R-dev for anything without musl-dev installed.

The header files installed by R-dev depend on the standard library, so that any attempt to compile using the R-dev header files will fail with e.g.

/usr/include/R/Rinternals.h:39:11: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
   39 | # include <stdio.h>
      |           ^~~~~~~~~

Am I missing something? Are there ways in which we might want to cherry-pick bits such that there is a use-case for being able to install just R-dev without musl-dev?

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