[R-sig-Debian] A newbee problem compiling R in ubuntu.

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 1 February 2010 at 00:16, Paul Johnson wrote:
| On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres
| <krcabrer at une.net.co> wrote:
| > Dear R users:
| >
| > Maybe it is a silly question, but I'm don't understand what am I doing
| > wrong (I make the same steps, and it works).
| >
| > In a new karmik koala ubuntu installation I compile the last patched
| > 2.10.1 version of R (r51070).
| >
| > Every thing was right (I install all the dev libraries I need).
| >
| > First I type:
| >
| > ./configure  --enable-R-shlib
| >
| > And I obtain:
| >
| 
| 
| Dear Kenneth:
| 
| Let me share you a handy thing I learned. You can get the commands
| that the R packages are built with, along with the source code.  Make
| a directory (this will download a bunch of stuff)
| 
| apt-get source r-base-core

I often recommend that too but ... 
| 
| that should download a tarball of original R source code, a diff file
| that is applied to build R deb, and it will open the code and apply
| the diff.  You can look inside the directory, in a subdirectory
| "debian", where the configure files that control package building are
| kept.

... if all you want is, say, the configure invocation then you are better off
just downloading the associated 'diff.gz' file which will be much, much smaller.

Dirk

| If you type "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot"  in the directory where all
| that stuff got opened up (the one "above" the debian subdirectory), it
| will build the debian packages.  It would not be an incredibly
| difficult thing to replace that R source package with the new one you
| want to use.  But I don't think you need to.  Just look in the rules
| file under debian subdirectory, you will see the configure statement
| they use.  I think in there you'll also find information about what
| devel packages they assume you have.
| 
| I find it to be a little difficult to revise debian builds, so I don't
| really mean you ought to do that. But you could.  And I often have!
| 
| 
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