[R] tcltk problems

[peter dalgaard]

That should probably work, but I wonder whether the root cause might be non-installation of Ubuntu "-devel" (or is it "-dev"?) Tcl and Tk packages. It doesn't look quite right to have to tell R's configure about a path that depends on the current Tcl/Tk version. I would have expected that tclConfig.sh would be found in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.

-pd 

> On 18 Nov 2017, at 06:18 , Peter Langfelder <peter.langfelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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