[R-SIG-Mac] Weird problems in Leopard

[Duncan Murdoch]

stephen sefick wrote:
> you have all of the compiliers necessary?  There goes a shot in the dark

I have Xcode 3.1 plus the gfortran from Simon's site, so I think so.  In 
any case, things go pretty far if I don't run within R CMD INSTALL.

Duncan Murdoch
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca 
> <mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>> wrote:
>
>     I've just bought a new iMac with 10.5.4 of OS X.  I installed R
>     2.7.1 on it with no problems.
>
>     I tried to install Xcode 3.0, but three downloads (two Firefox,
>     one Safari) were corrupt, so I installed 3.1.
>
>     Now, the weirdness:
>
>     When I try to install rgl from the CRAN source,  or from a local
>     directory using R CMD INSTALL, the configure script fails with
>     these messages:
>
>     checking for X... libraries /usr/X11/lib, headers /usr/X11/include
>     checking for glEnd in -lGL... no
>     configure: error: missing required library GL
>     ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl'
>     ** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/rgl'
>     ** Restoring previous
>     '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/rgl'
>
>
>     However, if I run the configure script (as ./configure) within the
>     local directory, it succeeds:
>
>     checking for X... libraries /usr/X11/lib, headers /usr/X11/include
>     checking for glEnd in -lGL... yes
>
>     I can then move the configure script out of the way and R CMD
>     INSTALL proceeds (until it gets to the FTVectoriser error, which
>     I'm working on fixing).
>
>
>     Why would R CMD INSTALL make the configure script fail???
>
>     Duncan Murdoch
>
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