[R-sig-Fedora] Fedora 42 R source build issues

[peter dalgaard]

Hm? That should be unnecessary if you have the corresponding lines in config.site in your build directory when running configure.

Anyways, I don't think there is a reason to remove version 9. Those configure *Config.sh scripts should ensure that you pick up version 8 for the build.

-pd

> On 16 Apr 2025, at 15.16, Roger Bivand via R-core <R-core using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025, peter dalgaard wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The Mac builds want stuff like below. I suspect you may need similar tcl and tk lines pointing to *Config.sh for Tcl/Tk 8.
> 
> With only tcl8-devel and tk8-devel installed, I also needed:
> 
> --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/usr/lib64/tkConfig.sh
> 
> to build and check.
> 
> Roger
> 
>> 
>> (Tcl/Tk 9 popped up a bit too late in the development cycle for us to go investigating. Do you have any specifics about what has changed and causes problems?)
>> 
>> -pd
>> 
>> pd$ more config.site
>> CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/R/x86_64/include
>> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/R/x86_64/lib
>> with_tcl_config=/opt/R/x86_64/lib/tclConfig.sh
>> with_tk_config=/opt/R/x86_64/lib/tkConfig.sh
>> 
>> 
>>> On 16 Apr 2025, at 11.11, Iñaki Ucar <iucar using fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 09:48, Roger Bivand via R-SIG-Fedora <
>>> r-sig-fedora using r-project.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Building R 4.5.0 from source on Fedora 42 hits problems because 42 ships
>>>> with Tcl/Tk 9. tcl8-devel and tk8-devel are available and can be used, but
>>>> I haven't yet found a viable incantation yet. Neither R released nor devel
>>>> support Tcl/Tk 9 https://www.tcl-lang.com/software/tcltk/9.0.html.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, you just need to install tcl8-devel and tk8-devel (and tell dnf to
>>> remove version 9 if it's already there) and compile as usual.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Building against external BLAS is also not self-evident, so may need
>>>> guidance.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Building against FlexiBLAS is recommended. So you need to install
>>> flexiblas-devel, then tell R via --with-blas=flexiblas --with-lapack.
>>> 
>>> See the configure part of our spec for a complete reference of what we do:
>>> 
>>> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/R/blob/rawhide/f/R.spec#_326
>>> 
>>> Iñaki
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions welcome!
>>>> 
>>>> Roger
>>>> 
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Phone: (+45)38153501
Office: A 4.23
Email: pd.mes using cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd using gmail.com