[Rd] configure script fails on comment in tkConfig.sh (PR#1500)

[Peter Kleiweg]

Kurt Hornik scribeva...

> >>>>> Peter Kleiweg writes:
>
> > Kurt Hornik scribeva...
> >> > I had to edit tkConfig.sh to solve this problem. This line:
> >>
> >> > TK_XINCLUDES='# no special path needed'
> >>
> >> > changed to this:
> >>
> >> > TK_XINCLUDES=
> >>
> >>
> >> > After this fix, R was configured for tcl/tk, and the package
> >> > tcltk seems to work OK (at least on this platform).
> >>
> >> A bug in your Tcl/Tk installation, I think.
>
> > If it is, it never caused any problem before, with older versions of
> > R.
>
> Interesting.  My tkConfig.sh has
>
> # -I switch(es) to use to make all of the X11 include files accessible:
> TK_XINCLUDES='-I/usr/X11R6/include'
>
> and I would not think that '# no special path needed' is a valid switch.
>
> If this problem persists acroess platforms we can work around it but I
> must say that Tcl/Tk configuration testing is getting a bit silly after
> all.

Of course it is a bug in tkConfig.sh. But since I encountered it
on two out of four platforms, one very old, one new, it could be
a problem more people will run into. Whether this is something
the configure script of R should take care of is something I
don't have an opinion about.

-- 
Peter Kleiweg
http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/

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