--- a/lib/R/bin/javareconf.orig	2018-06-22 09:55:23.000000000 +0100
+++ b/lib/R/bin/javareconf	2018-06-22 09:55:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -347,10 +364,16 @@
 ac_status=$?
 
 if test $ac_status != 0; then
-  echo "Unable to compile a JNI program"
-  JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
-  JAVA_LIBS=
-  JAVA_CPPFLAGS=
+  echo "Unable to compile a JNI program, ignoring this though as you may not want to compile anything here"
+  echo ".. this is an Anaconda Distribution and conda-forge customization whereby env activation causes us"
+  echo ".. to call R CMD javareconf in order to dynamically detect a JDK that may be in that env. The fact"
+  echo ".. that we prohibit setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is also somewhat responsible for us needing to do this"
+  echo ".. because \${R_HOME}/etc/ldpaths is the normal way that R dynamically finds shared libraries. This"
+  echo ".. is what would, in upstream R, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. AD cannot set this as it causes all sorts of"
+  echo ".. issues with DT_RUNPATH / DT_RPATH on various distributions."
+  # JAVA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
+  # JAVA_LIBS=
+  # JAVA_CPPFLAGS=
 fi
 
 rm -f conftest.c conftest.o conftest.so Makevars
