[R] R-gnome: no way to configure

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:16:51PM +0100, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> On 04-Feb-2002 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:22:34PM +0100, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> >> 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
> > 
> > How could it be, given five or six differnt (major) Linux distributions, and
> > as many different flavours of Unix.
> 
> Well I wrote (or at least edited) that bit.  I'm allowed to criticise
> myself, I hope.  I went as far as I could without being platform-
> specific, but if people are still confused then then some more
> detailed instructions for the most popular platforms may be necessary.

Don't disagree, it is just not something we can fix for all platforms all
the time. But how about if we (porters) try to tell people what packages we
use to build our packages?

Eg for Debian I even need to do that internally so that the non-i386
packages can be build automagically:

Source: r-base
Section: math
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
Standards-Version: 3.5.0
Build-Depends: blas-dev (>= 1.0-9), libgnome-dev, libzvt-dev,
  libgtkxmhtml-dev, tcl8.3-dev, tk8.3-dev, libglade-gnome0-dev, bison, g77
  [!m68k !ia64], g77-3.0 [ia64], f2c [m68k], gcc-3.0 [ia64], g++-3.0 [ia64],
  groff-base, libncurses5-dev, libreadline4-dev, tetex-bin, tetex-extra,
  debhelper (>= 3.0.0)
[snip]

By and in itself this is not that useful until the now-finalised Linux
Standards Base covers library names etc pp but it might give some people a
glimpse of what they were missing.

Dirk




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