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

[Iñaki Ucar]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 at 16:02, Martyn Plummer <martyn.plummer using gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 10:11, 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.
>>
>>
> There is now a fix in R-devel that allows R to be linked to Tcl/Tk 9. I'll
> give it a few days to bed in and then port it over to R-4-5-branch so that
> it can go in R 4.5.1.
>

Great, thanks for the heads-up!

Iñaki


>
> Martyn
>
>
>>
>> > 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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>> > Roger Bivand
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>> > Department of Economics
>> > Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
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