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

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025, Iñaki Ucar wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 09:48, Roger Bivand via R-SIG-Fedora 
> <r-sig-fedora using r-project.org<mailto: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.

Thanks, I was missing flexiblas-devel.

Roger

>
> 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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