[R-SIG-Mac] small steps ahead from fink in building R Darwin/X11 port

[Jan de Leeuw]

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 20:25 US/Pacific, Don MacQueen wrote:

> This --enable-fink option looks like a very good thing. Thank you.

I think the enable-fink is an option to compile dlcompar from opendarwin

>
> How does it work? Does it mean that during installation the necessary  
> files are downloaded from fink, used during make, and then deleted?
>
> I find jpeg and tcltk to be very useful; does --enable-fink include  
> them among the capabilities?

you can use them from fink or install them in /usr/local yourself.  
observe that darwinports, the other
major porting project, installs everything in /opt, which is not much  
better than /sw

>
> I notice that cledit is shown as FALSE among the capabilities listed  
> below. Is that the capability that is enabled when libreadlines is  
> available? If so, I feel that it is essential.

yes, command-line edit is readline, again either from fink or your own  
in /usr/lib


it seems to me fink is (still) a necessary evil, and we should not get  
to be too worked up about it

>
> -Don
>
> At 6:09 PM +0200 5/25/03, Stefano Iacus wrote:
>> If you want to have a g77 not coming from fink you can try to install  
>> g77 3.1 from
>>
>> http://gravity.psu.edu/~khanna/hpc.html
>>
>> I can build a clean R (both 1.7.0 and today patched R) without having  
>> anything from fink installed (I remove /sw directory from my system).
>>
>> I've also installed dlcompat as I wrote in a previous msg:
>>
>> from http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/dlcompat/
>>
>>     use the following to configure/install
>>
>>   make clean
>>   ./configure --enable-fink
>>   make
>>
>> Configuring R with
>>
>> ./configure --enable-R-shlib --with-blas='-framework vecLib'  
>> --with-lapack
>>
>>
>> gives you the following capabilities
>>
>>
>>>  capabilities()
>>     jpeg      png    tcltk      X11    GNOME     libz http/ftp   
>> sockets
>>    FALSE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE      
>> TRUE
>>   libxml     fifo   cledit  IEEE754    bzip2     PCRE
>>     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>>
>>
>> Stefano
>>
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