R-beta: compiling R-0.62.3 on SuSe Linux

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch writes:

> 
> >>configure:1888: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -ldxml
> >>  -ldl -lncurses -lm  1>&5 
> >>/usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -ldxml: No such file or directory
> >>configure: failed program was:
> >>#line 1881 "configure"
> >>#include "confdefs.h"

This kind of thing is normal. Just configure's way of finding out that
you don't have that lib.

> 
> I still tried to run 'make' and this resulted in failure messages
> of which I include the following:
> 
> >>make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-0.62.3/src/appl'
> >>cd unix; make
> >>make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-0.62.3/src/unix'
> >>gcc -g -O2  -I../../src/include  -c dataentry.c
> >>In file included from dataentry.c:24:
> >>dataentry.h:22: X11/X.h: No such file or directory
> >>dataentry.h:23: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
> >>dataentry.h:24: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
> >>dataentry.h:25: X11/keysym.h: No such file or directory
> >>dataentry.h:26: X11/cursorfont.h: No such file or directory

This, however, indicates that you're not set for compiling any X11
program, including R. I don't know SuSe very well, but I'd suspect that
you're missing an "X11-devel" package or something like that.

(R doesn't have the proper #ifdef's in to compile without X11,
although it probably should get them at some point.)

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