[R] tcltk problems

[Peter Langfelder]

Rolf,

looking at the configure script I believe you need to specify

--with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh

and similarly

--with-tk-config=<location of tkConfig.sh>

HTH,

Peter


On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 18/11/17 17:00, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>>
>> When I have compiled from sourced on Ubuntu, I did NOT include the
>> "with-tcltk" and it worked fine.  Did you try that, please?
>
>
> In the past I have configured without using the "--with-tcltk" flag,
> and R of course built just fine.  But it *did not* have tcltk capability.
> When I wanted that capability I had to start using the
> aforesaid flag.
>
> It makes absolutely no sense that one would get tcltk capability when
> configuring without the flag but *not* get it when configuring *with* the
> flag.  If that is indeed the case then this definitely constitutes a bug in
> the "configure" system.
>
> I cannot believe that it would work to leave out the flag, but I'll try it
> just for the sake of "completeness".
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
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