[R] R-gnome: no way to configure

[Martyn Plummer]

Hi Augustin,

I am sorry to see that you are having problems compiling the
GNOME interface to R.  There seem to be two separate problems
here
1) The manual (R-admin) is not sufficiently clear about what
   libraries are required
2) You have not successfully compiled R-gnome with R installed
   in /opt/gnome

Suggestions for (1) are welcome.  For problem (2), the 
configure script is looking for a shell script called
"gnome-config".  On Red Hat Linux, this is provided by
the gnome-libs-devel RPM (NB you must install the development
versions of all the libraries to compile your own progams)
and is located in the directory /usr/bin/

I suspect that either this package is not installed on your
system, or it is installed, but "gnome-config" has been
installed in a location that is not in your PATH, such as
/opt/gnome/bin. Check this with

which gnome-config
echo $PATH

Let me know what you find
Martyn

On 04-Feb-2002 Agustin Lobo wrote:
> 
> Ernesto,
> 
> I gave up by now. I did check the required packages  and it seems
> I have all that is needed, but don't get the
> R configuration program to find them.
> 
> In my last message to the list on this topic, I reproduced
> the last output of configure:
> 
> "checking for gnome-config... (cached) no
> checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
> 
> I do have gnomeConf.sh, but in /opt/gnome/lib/ Nevertheless,
> I do state 
> --with-gnome-libs=/opt/gnome/lib"
> 
> It seems that I should go and manually
> modify the configuration script to use the
> /opt/gnome/lib directory instead of /usr/local/lib,
> but I'm a bit reluctant to do it as my knowledge
> on sys. admin. is very limited.
> 
> Also, Luke (who was able to compile R with gnome support
> under Suse with no problem) told me the to do
> the following:
> 
>> rpm -q -a --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" | sort
> 
> and compare with his own list, that he included as an attachment.
> I can send it to you as well if you think that could be
> useful.
> 
> 
> Let me know if you manage to do it!
> 
> Agus
> 
> Dr. Agustin Lobo
> Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC)
> Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n
> 08028 Barcelona SPAIN
> tel 34 93409 5410
> fax 34 93411 0012
> alobo at ija.csic.es
> 
> 
> On 4 Feb 2002, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Did you manage to compile R with gnome ? If you did can you please post
>> me the comand line that you've used ?
>> 
>> I have the same problem that you've described and don't know how to work
>> around it.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> EJ
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