[R] tcltk problems

[Erin Hodgess]

When I have compiled from sourced on Ubuntu, I did NOT include the
"with-tcltk" and it worked fine.  Did you try that, please?

Thanks,
Erin


On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:

>
> It recently came to my attention that my R installation no longer has
> tcltk capability.
>
> I can't figure out why or what to do about it.
>
> I built R from source.  I configured using the "--with-tcltk" flag.  The
> build and install *seemed* to go OK, but after realising I didn't have
> tcltk capability I looked into config.log.
>
> There I found:
>
> configure:39486: checking for tclConfig.sh
>> configure:39519: result: no
>> configure:39528: checking for tclConfig.sh in library (sub)directories
>> configure:39549: result: no
>> configure:39561: checking for tkConfig.sh
>> configure:39594: result: no
>> configure:39603: checking for tkConfig.sh in library (sub)directories
>> configure:39624: result: no
>> configure:39721: checking for tcl.h
>> conftest.c:249:17: fatal error: tcl.h: No such file or directory
>> compilation terminated.
>>
>
> I have tcl and tk (and the -dev versions) installed on my machine, and
> they are apparently up-to-date).
>
> Moreover if I do "locate tclConfig.sh" I get:
>
> /usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh
>>
>
> And likewise "locate tcl.h" produces:
>
> /usr/include/tcl8.6/tcl.h
>> /usr/include/tcl8.6/tcl-private/generic/tcl.h
>>
>
> So why can't "configure" find these files, and how can I tell it where to
> find them?
>
> I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and my last install of R was of version 3.4.2.
>
> My installation procedure always worked in the past ....
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
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Erin Hodgess
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Department of Mathematical and Statistics
University of Houston - Downtown
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