[Rd] Fwd: help building very old R

[David Hugh-Jones]

Thanks for the tip. That could be a huge timesaver. But it lists only a
single package for versions 0.90.1-2 ... how does that work?
David


On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 12:27, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 30 July 2018 at 05:35, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> | Hi guys,
> |
> | Perhaps someone here can help.
> |
> | I am trying to build versions of R 1 for the rcheology package (just
> | arrived on CRAN).
> |
> | For R prior to 1.5.0, I cannot configure support for tcl-tk.
> |
> | I am building on Debian Woody (provided by Docker debian/eol) and have
> the
> | following packages installed:
> | r-base-dev tclx8.3-dev tk8.3-dev xvfb xbase-clients x-window-system-core
> |
> | I download R source from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-1 and run
> |
> | ./configure --with-tcl-tk=yes
> | --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tcl8.3/tclConfig.sh
> |       --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tk8.3/tkConfig.sh
> |
> | These are the locations for the relevant tkConfig.sh and tclConfig.sh
> files.
> | This gives output as follows:
> |
> | R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> |
> |   Source directory:          .
> |   Installation directory:    /usr/local
> |
> |   C compiler:                gcc  -g -O2
> |   C++ compiler:              c++  -g -O2
> |   FORTRAN compiler:          g77  -g -O2
> |   X11 support:               yes
> |   Gnome support:             no
> |   Tcl/Tk support:            no
> |   R profiling support:       yes
> |   R as a shared library:     no
> |
> | And config.log reveals:
> | configure:13099: checking for /usr/lib/tcl8.3/tclConfig.sh
> | configure:13134: checking for /usr/lib/tk8.3/tkConfig.sh
> | configure:13204: checking for /usr/include/tcl8.3/tcl.h
> | configure:13214: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c >/dev/null
> | 2>conftest.out
> | configure:13313: checking for /usr/include/tk8.3/tk.h
> | configure:13323: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> | -I/usr/include
> | /tcl8.3 conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> | configure:13319: /usr/include/tk8.3/tk.h: No such file or directory
> | configure: failed program was:
> | #line 13318 "configure"
> | #include "confdefs.h"
> | #include </usr/include/tk8.3/tk.h>
> | configure:13348: checking for /usr/include/tk.h
> | configure:13358: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
> | -I/usr/include
> | /tcl8.3 conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> | configure:13354: /usr/include/tk.h: No such file or directory
> | configure: failed program was:
> | #line 13353 "configure"
> | #include "confdefs.h"
> | #include </usr/include/tk.h>
> | configure:13385: checking for tk.h
> | configure:13389: tk.h: No such file or directory
> |
> | In fact, tk.h is in  /usr/include/tcl8.3/ , despite the failed program
> | compilation report.
> |
> | R 1.5.0 and above work fine. Can anyone remember far back, if something
> | changed in the configure script?
> |
> | Alternatively, those who are feeling brave can download the Docker image
> | creation scripts from github.com/hughjonesd/rcheology .
>
> Have you considered the actual Debian packages from "way back then" ?
> Debian has this nifty snapshot archive where you can get old binaries:
>
>   http://snapshot.debian.org/
>
> For (source package) r-base we see 3.5.1 all the way down to 0.61.2
>
>   http://snapshot.debian.org/package/r-base/
>
> Alternatively, the package itself is now (finally, my bad) in a git repo
> which goes back to 0.61.2 as well (using snapshot as the feeder)
>
>   https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base/commits/master
>
> Hth,  Dirk
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
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