[R] ./configure needs /sw/lib?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Tony Marlboro wrote:

> 
> Thank you for your reply, Professor Ripley.
> 
> > Yes, to use R CMD INSTALL directly: use R CMD INSTALL --help to find
> > out how.  You need to supply --with-netCDF=/sw, I believe (but then
> > the headers may not be found).
> 
> R CMD INSTALL --configure-args="--with-netCDF=/sw" netCDF_1.5.tar.gz
> was the correct incantation, thanks.
> 
> I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure this out on my
> own, and I think it would have been easier if the "Add-on packages"
> section of the "R Installation" manual were more complete.  It would
> be nice to highlight the differences between install.packages() and R
> CMD INSTALL, if at least to mention the extra capabilities of R CMD INSTALL.
> I would like to submit a documentation patch.  With whom should I
> correspond? 

It's in the FAQ.  Of course, it would be nice for the rest of us if 
MacOS X were not so out-of-kilter.

> > It should be simpler to fix your OS: if you put /sw/include in your
> > INCLUDE path and /sw/lib in your LIBRARY path then configure in
> > netCDF should work `out of the box'.
> 
> Are you referring to environment variables called INCLUDE and LIBRARY?
> I tried setting them, then running R CMD INSTALL without any extra
> args to configure, and it failed.  I'm quite curious what you mean by
> "INCLUDE path" and "LIBRARY path".

On a normal Unix system, something like C_INCLUDE_PATH and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, who knows on such a system as MacOS X.

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