[R] installing rgl

[David Winsemius]

> On Jan 11, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Weiner, Michael <weinerm at ccf.org> wrote:
> 
> I have a Fedora linux 24 64bit workstation I am trying to install rgl on and I keep running into this error:

I thin this is more appropriately directed to:

R-SIG-Fedora

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David.
> 
> trying URL 'https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/src/contrib/rgl_0.97.0.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2369444 bytes (2.3 MB)
> ==================================================
> downloaded 2.3 MB
> 
> * installing *source* package 'rgl' ...
> ** package 'rgl' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> checking for gcc... gcc -m64
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc -m64 accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc -m64 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -m64 -E
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc -m64
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc -m64 accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gcc -m64 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
> checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... yes
> checking whether gcc -m64 accepts -fvisibility... yes
> checking whether  accepts -fvisibility... no
> checking for libpng-config... yes
> configure: using libpng-config
> configure: using libpng dynamic linkage
> checking for X... libraries , headers
> checking GL/gl.h usability... yes
> checking GL/gl.h presence... yes
> checking for GL/gl.h... yes
> checking GL/glu.h usability... yes
> checking GL/glu.h presence... yes
> checking for GL/glu.h... yes
> checking for glEnd in -lGL... no
> configure: error: missing required library GL
> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
> * removing '/usr/lib64/R/library/rgl'
> 
> The downloaded source packages are in
>        '/tmp/Rtmp0VF17F/downloaded_packages'
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Making 'packages.html' ... done
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("rgl") :
>  installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status
> 
> As you can see, it finds the GL headers, but fails on glEnd and then complains it cannot find the GL libraries. I have the mesa-libGL mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU mesa-libGLU-devel packages installed but I still get the errors.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thank you in advance
> Michael Weiner
> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA