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False alarm. Completely wiping out my build directory followed by
../R-devel/configure --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh
- --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh; make
seems to work. (My fault for assuming repeated cycles of
./configure; make would actually do the right thing ...)
There seems to be a corollary of Clarke's Law ("any sufficient
advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic") that says that
any sufficiently complex software system may *not* be magic, but it's
just easier to treat it as though it is ...
Thanks for the offer of help ...
Ben
On 15-05-26 10:25 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:>
> Ben,
>
> At work with little time so _real brief_:
>
> -- we build r-devel "all the time", in fact nightly for rocker;
and
> there are Dockerfiles to look at
>
> -- we build R all the time in Debian, Ubuntu, ... and my sources
> for that are not on GH but you can fetch the diff.gz
>
> -- there is an entire list dedicated to this: r-sig-debian so could
> you pretty-please post there (after registering, if needed)
>
> I'll be glad to help, preferably on r-sig-debian.
>
> Cheers, Dirk
>
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>>>>> Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> >>>>> on Tue, 26 May 2015 11:13:41 -0400 writes:> False alarm. Completely wiping out my build directory followed by > ../R-devel/configure --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh > - --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh; make > seems to work. (My fault for assuming repeated cycles of > ./configure; make would actually do the right thing ...) > There seems to be a corollary of Clarke's Law ("any sufficient > advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic") that says that > any sufficiently complex software system may *not* be magic, but it's > just easier to treat it as though it is ... > Thanks for the offer of help ... I also run several computers on Ubuntu 14.04 and never had to anything special, I mean *no* --with-tcl-... or --with-tk-.... where ever needed for me on 14.04 or earlier Ubuntu's... so I do wonder how you got into problems at all. Martin > Ben > On 15-05-26 10:25 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> >> Ben, >> >> At work with little time so _real brief_: >> >> -- we build r-devel "all the time", in fact nightly for rocker; and >> there are Dockerfiles to look at >> >> -- we build R all the time in Debian, Ubuntu, ... and my sources >> for that are not on GH but you can fetch the diff.gz >> >> -- there is an entire list dedicated to this: r-sig-debian so could >> you pretty-please post there (after registering, if needed) >> >> I'll be glad to help, preferably on r-sig-debian. >> >> Cheers, Dirk >>
On 28/05/2015, at 11:57 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:>>>>>> Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> >>>>>> on Tue, 26 May 2015 11:13:41 -0400 writes: > > >> False alarm. Completely wiping out my build directory followed by > >> ../R-devel/configure --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh >> - --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh; make > >> seems to work. (My fault for assuming repeated cycles of >> ./configure; make would actually do the right thing ...) > >> There seems to be a corollary of Clarke's Law ("any sufficient >> advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic") that says that >> any sufficiently complex software system may *not* be magic, but it's >> just easier to treat it as though it is ... > >> Thanks for the offer of help ... > > I also run several computers on Ubuntu 14.04 > and never had to anything special, I mean *no* > --with-tcl-... or --with-tk-.... > where ever needed for me on 14.04 or earlier Ubuntu's... so I do > wonder how you got into problems at all. >I also have the same problem with Ubuntu (at least in 14.04, now in 15.04): ./configure does not find tcl/tk without --with-tcl-? and --with-tk-? They are in quite normal places, but still need manual setting. Currently I use something like --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh I need these explicit switches only when configure is overwritten. Normal compilation with ./configure works OK and finds Tcl/Tk, but a couple of times per year the configure seems to change so much that I need to use these switches. I have had this problem a couple of years. If I need to guess, I do something wrong and against instructions, and therefore I won't complain. Cheers, Jari Oksanen