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

[Stefano Iacus]

On Giovedì, mag 29, 2003, at 05:25 Europe/Rome, Don MacQueen wrote:

> This --enable-fink option looks like a very good thing. Thank you.
>
this option is sensible only to the building phase of dlcompat. This 
options is needed to control the way symbol names in the dlls are 
treated.

> How does it work? Does it mean that during installation the necessary 
> files are downloaded from fink, used during make, and then deleted?
>
no

> I find jpeg and tcltk to be very useful; does --enable-fink include 
> them among the capabilities?
>
as I said this is not related

> 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, I need to fix this too and I agree it is essential.
stefano


>
> -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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