R devel - Jul 2015 - ' --enable-R-shlib' problem when setting up R-devel in Linux Mint 17.1 64-bit

On 21 July 2015 at 02:15, MAURICIO ZAMBRANO BIGIARINI wrote:
| Regarding the previous problem with setting up r-devel in Linux Mint
| 17.1 64-bit, I deleted all the r-devel files I previously had, and
| then I did the check out to the
| 
| '~/svn/r-devel'
| 
| directory originally mentioned by by Dirk  on
| https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2012-August/001935.html,
| instead of the customised location I previously chose:
| 
| '~/SVN/R-devel/trunk'
| 
| and now I everything worked perfectly fine.
| 
| However, I'm still wondering what should I change in the first script
| proposed by Dirk on
| https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2012-August/001935.html if
| i want to use a user-defined location for the development files (e.g.,
| '~/SVN/R-devel/trunk'). I meant, in addition to the line:
| 
| cd ~/svn/r-devel

That is most likely spurious.  Your errors may be due to, say, you not having
run 'make clean' or 'make distclean' in the previous repo
checkout you had so
that the effect of the _initial_ configure call still lingered.

There is no magic here. Lots of people have built R this way, and even more
people use configure regularly.  These things work.  

You somehow boxed yourself into a corner, out of which you now seem to have
escaped, which is good.  The proper sequence (svn checkout ...; configure
...; make ...) will work no matter what name you give the directory you work
in.

Regards, Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

> On 21 Jul 2015, at 13:13 , Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
> 
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> You somehow boxed yourself into a corner, out of which you now seem to have
> escaped, which is good.  The proper sequence (svn checkout ...; configure
> ...; make ...) will work no matter what name you give the directory you
work
> in.
> 
You may want to avoid building in the source directory, though. We don't
generally do that when testing, so you may bump into something unexpected.

I.e., rather do 

export REPOS=https://svn.r-project.org/R
export RTOP=~ #adjust as necessary
cd $RTOP
svn co $REPOS/trunk r-devel/R
mkdir r-devel/BUILD
#---
cd r-devel/R
svn up 
cd ../BUILD 
../R/configure
make

For configure optione, I generally maintain a config.site in the r-devel
directory and copy it to BUILD before running configure.

Presumably, regular R already exists as a package on Linux Mint. You might want
to investigate how R is built from sources, see for instance:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1822
 

-- 
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Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com

Thank you very much Dirk, Peter and Johannes for all your help.

Now, I removed all the previous files and repeated all the previous
procedure using my own SVN directory, instead of the
' ~/svn/r-devel' included in the original mail of Dirk, and everything
worked fine as well.

So I can confirm that very likely I suffered the effect of the
_initial_ configure, because I didn't run 'make clean' or 'make
distclean' in the first repo I checkout.

Finally, I slightly modified the first script of  Dirk  on
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2012-August/001935.html,
to avoid building in the source directory (following the advice of
Peter Dalgaard) and finally I'm able to set up R-devel on a daily
basis !

Thanks to all of you and I hope this thread might be useful for
somebody else....

Kind regards,

Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, PhD

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On 21 July 2015 at 09:16, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>> On 21 Jul 2015, at 13:13 , Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>>
>>
>> You somehow boxed yourself into a corner, out of which you now seem to
have
>> escaped, which is good.  The proper sequence (svn checkout ...;
configure
>> ...; make ...) will work no matter what name you give the directory you
work
>> in.
>>
>
> You may want to avoid building in the source directory, though. We
don't generally do that when testing, so you may bump into something
unexpected.
>
> I.e., rather do
>
> export REPOS=https://svn.r-project.org/R
> export RTOP=~ #adjust as necessary
> cd $RTOP
> svn co $REPOS/trunk r-devel/R
> mkdir r-devel/BUILD
> #---
> cd r-devel/R
> svn up
> cd ../BUILD
> ../R/configure
> make
>
> For configure optione, I generally maintain a config.site in the r-devel
directory and copy it to BUILD before running configure.
>
> Presumably, regular R already exists as a package on Linux Mint. You might
want to investigate how R is built from sources, see for instance:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1822
>
>
> --
> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Phone: (+45)38153501
> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
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