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

[Stefano Iacus]

On Giovedì, mag 29, 2003, at 07:34 Europe/Rome, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

>
> 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

absolutely, but this version of dlcompat installa in the right place in  
/usr

>
>>
>> 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

yes it is for few things but my aim is to let the "standard" mac user  
be able to build (R and) the packages on its own.
The main problem with fink is that you need to know several things (for  
example as pointed out by you, the g77 must to be from the unstable  
tree of fink and you have to configure fink for this).

Fink is not "evil" :) it is really good, but I would like people to  
install things they need to build R using double-clicking installers  
and so on and I'm also looking forward for the next Apple Dev. Tools to  
see what's inside.
Probably Jan knows better then me what's going on.

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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>>
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>> California, USA
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