MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

Did something happen to the handling of MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM in the last 
couple of months?

On our linux systems it used to be being set to x86_64-unknown-linux (at 
least when building the R package) and is now "x86_64-pc-linux"
which causes R to change where its personal libraries directory points.

cheers
mark