[R-SIG-Mac] config problems

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:55 PM, steven mosher wrote:

> Found this for future reference in case anybody else needs it
> 
> "Apple’s developer website only links to the latest version of Xcode, which requires Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).
> If you’re still running Leopard (10.5), you need to go to this alternative developer website:
> 
> http://connect.apple.com/
> 

.. just for completeness this is exactly the same as clicking on "Developer Downloads" on the developer website (so the above is a bit misleading..)


> then look under developer tools in the right hand  column
> 



Cheers,
Simon



> Thanks guys.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 17, 2010, at 5:53 PM, steven mosher wrote:
> 
> > I've come to the point where some of the packages I want to use require me
> > to work from source.
> >
> > ERROR: dependencies ŒRcompression‚ are not available for package ŒRKML‚
> > * removing Œ/Users/mosher/Library/R/2.11/library/RKML‚
> > * installing *source* package ŒRcompression‚ ...
> > Checking configuration for Rcompression to find libz and libbz2
> > checking for gcc... no
> > checking for cc... no
> > checking for cl.exe... no
> > configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
> > See `config.log' for more details.
> > ERROR: configuration failed for package ŒRcompression‚
> >
> > So, It appears that I have to install a compiler. Looking at Xcode the
> > package that was available required an OS upgrade
> > is Xcode the only option or is there another option I can use..
> >
> 
> Xcode is available for pretty much all OS X versions so you must be looking at the wrong one. If you have OS X 10.5 you want Xcode 3.1.4 and for OS X 10.6 you want Xcode 3.2.3 or 3.2.4. They will be on your PATH automatically once you install them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
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