[R-SIG-Mac] compiling R devel on vanilla tiger

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

I am not too worried about the Aqua GUI: basically, one needs access  
to the development version of R when working with the development  
version of Bioconductor. The entire exercise is an attempt to make a  
devel version of R while retaining an installation of stable R with  
R.app and all that jazz.

I want this to be relatively easy because several others need to do  
this as well, so that was why I refrained from installing tcltk. I am  
not really using these gui packages myself (but I sometimes need to  
install them to satisfy dependencies), perhaps I need to rethink this  
approach.

Kasper

On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:

> Of course now you have R with AquaTcl, your Tcl/Tk based packages
> will not work from the Aqua GUI, and packages such as tkrplot will not
> work at all.
>
> On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:17 , Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I just repeat what I've said here already: unless you desperately
>>>>> need 64-bit R there is no real benefit from using gcc4, because
>>>>> it's
>>>>> still very instable (gfortran segfaults even on simple examples)
>>>>> and
>>>>> unreliable (gfortran is even slower than g77). There is a good
>>>>> reason
>>>>> why the CRAN build uses gcc3 and g77.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That was a nice clear statement. So given that I want to compile R
>>>> from source (because I need the devel version), without too much
>>>> hassle I should use gcc 3.3 supplied by Xcode 2.1. But what do I do
>>>> with respect to the Fortran compiler?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> CRAN installer package of R comes with g77 3.4 which is recommended.
>>> You can install it even separately from the R binary (preferably
>>> using sudo installer ... because there is a bug in the package that
>>> doesn't allow non-admins to install it - c.f. the list). That  
>>> version
>>> is tested to work with the gcc3 that cones with Xcode 2.x. If you
>>> plan to compile R from sources you may also want to run
>>> sudo gcc_select 3.3
>>> to prevent having problems with cc_dynamic.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> How close should the versions match? Should I get
>>>>   - gcc 3.3.6 (latest version of the 3.3 branch) from Gnu's website
>>>>   - gcc 3.4.4 from Gnu's website
>>>>   - gcc 3.4 from the hpc.sourceforge website
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> It doesn't really matter as long as it is >=3.3 and <=3.9 except  
>>> that
>>> it should use static Fortran libraries if possible (unfortunately  
>>> the
>>> more recent ones don't).
>>>
>>
>> It works!
>>
>> So here is what I did:
>> 1) Downloaded the most recent (binary) version of R from cran and
>> mounted the disk image.
>> 2) installed the g77 compiler from the package by
>>    sudo installer  -pkg /Volumes/R-2.1.1/Packages/g77.pkg -target /
>> (if you just want to check the package information, do
>>    installer -pkg /Volumes/R-2.1.1/Packages/g77.pkg -pkginfo
>> )
>> 3) compiled R using the flags
>> ./configure --with-aqua \
>>    --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack \
>>    --with-tcl-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/tclConfig.sh \
>>    --with-tk-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/tkConfig.sh \
>>    R_PAPERSIZE=letter \
>>    F77=g77 \
>>    TCLTK_LIBS='-framework Tcl -framework Tk' \
>>    TCLTK_CPPFLAGS='-I/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Headers
>>                      -I/Library/Frameworks/Tk.frameworks/Headers'
>> (bad linebreak because of the mail program in the two last lines)
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Kasper
>>
>>
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