[R-SIG-Mac] Weird problems in Leopard

[Jan de Leeuw]

Yes, that R comes with its own config parameters, and
much has changed in X11/GL since Leopard first appeared.

On Jul 16, 2008, at 14:09 , Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> Jan de Leeuw wrote:
>> Did you compile R on the same computer ?
>
> No, I just installed the binary from CRAN.  That's likely the problem.
>
> Duncan
>
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2008, at 13:55 , Duncan Murdoch 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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===
Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of  
Statistics;
Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES);
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
Software;
US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
phone (310)-825-9550;  fax (310)-206-5658;  email: deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
.mac: jdeleeuw ++++++  aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw
homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org
   
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