[R-sig-Fedora] tcktk problem with custom R 2.15.0 build on RHEL5

[Bruce Pennypacker]

On 5/21/12 4:54 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote
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> What does:
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>    capabilities("tcltk")
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> show?
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> It should return TRUE if all is generally well. If it does come back TRUE, check the output of:
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>    capabilities()
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> to see if anything else comes back as FALSE.

capabilities("tcltk") does return TRUE.  capabilities() returns TRUE for everything except for tiff, aqua, and profmem.


> Since you installed from source rather than using the pre-built binary R RPM available for RHEL from the EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL):
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>    http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/R.html
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> you may be missing the required '-devel' RPMs that contain the header files for tcl/tk. I would have thought that you might have gotten errors from 'config' if that were the case, but perhaps they were missed?
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We do have the -devel RPM's for tcl/tk installed so I would have 
expected the R config to pick them up.  I may go back and re-run it and 
take a closer look.

-Bruce