Halldor Björnsson
2004-Nov-29 11:46 UTC
[Rd] problems with R-2.01 build with Mandrake 10.1
I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on my laptop, downloaded the latest version of R, compiled it and ran it. To my surprise I discovered that the X11() command returned an error to the effect that X was not available. Examining R config.log I noticed that there were several complaints about X and tcl in there. Basic include files, such as X11/X.h were not found. I have previously compiled R-2.0.1 on a RedHat8 station and that one ran without any problems. Does anyone know if there is an issue pertaining to X windows system that might make harder to compile R on mandrake than on redhat. Are there any specific rpms that need to be included before I can compile R so it includes X I understand that Mandrake 10.1 uses Xorg instead of XFree86, but am under the impression that these are compatible. Sincerely, Halld?r -- ------------------------------------------ Halldor Bjornsson (halldor@vedur.is) Vedurstofa Islands (Icelandic Met. Office) Bustadavegur 9, IS-150, Reykjavik, Iceland
Halldor Bj?rnsson <halldor@vedur.is> writes:> I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on my laptop, downloaded > the latest version of R, compiled it and ran it. > > To my surprise I discovered that the X11() command returned > an error to the effect that X was not available. > Examining R config.log I noticed that there were several > complaints about X and tcl in there. Basic include files, such as > X11/X.h were not found. > > I have previously compiled R-2.0.1 on a RedHat8 station > and that one ran without any problems. > > Does anyone know if there is an issue pertaining to > X windows system that might make harder to compile R on > mandrake than on redhat. Are there any specific rpms that > need to be included before I can compile R so it includes X > > I understand that Mandrake 10.1 uses Xorg instead of XFree86, > but am under the impression that these are compatible.I think Mandrake (like RedHat/Fedora) has a separate X development RPM, which you need to install. (Several other libs have the same convention, so do check the output from configure, and see if anything else went missing.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907