R devel - Oct 2005 - Compilation of R-2.2.0 under SUSE 10

Hi

I hope this is the right list for the question.
I want to install R from source under SUSE 10. When executing ./Configure, I 
get the following error message:

checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
configure: WARNING: I could not determine FPICFLAGS.
configure: error: See the file INSTALL for more information.

and it taborts. Consequently, make does not work.

Any ideas?

Rainer

Rainer M Krug <rkrug at sun.ac.za> writes:
> Hi
> 
> I hope this is the right list for the question.
> I want to install R from source under SUSE 10. When executing ./Configure,
I
> get the following error message:
> 
> checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf
> configure: WARNING: I could not determine FPICFLAGS.
> configure: error: See the file INSTALL for more information.
> 
> and it taborts. Consequently, make does not work.
> 
> Any ideas?
You probably want to look into config.log and see what caused the
FPICFLAGS message. It could be an oblique way of telling you that you
haven't installed a Fortran compiler.

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