[R] Installing rgl package under Ubuntu

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12/15/2006 9:01 AM, Ivailo Stoyanov wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 08:55 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> [snip]
>> rgl needs to know where the X11 headers and libs are, and it appears 
>> that the configure script (which was written by autoconfig) isn't 
>> finding them.  You probably need to specify them manually, when you run 
>> configure:
>> 
>>    --x-includes=DIR    X include files are in DIR
>>    --x-libraries=DIR   X library files are in DIR
>> 
>> If you built R, you can find where R found these by looking at the 
>> config.log:  search for X_CFLAGS and X_LIBS, and you'll see something like
>> 
>> X_CFLAGS=' -I/usr/X11R6/include'
>> X_LIBS=' -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXt -lXmu'
>> 
>> which should mean that this would install rgl on this system:
>> 
>> R CMD INSTALL rgl --configure-args="--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include 
>> --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib"
>> 
>> (In fact, the configure script found them in those locations by itself.)
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Thanks for the response, but meanwhile I figured the solution and have
> just posted it to the list!
> 
> It seems that the r-base-dev package from the Ubuntu R backport doesn't
> provide *all* the packages necessary to build add-on libraries.

I don't think it could:  package writers are free to require anything 
they like.  rgl may be the only package requiring the OpenGL 
headers/libs, for instance.

Duncan Murdoch