[R-SIG-Mac] compiling from source on ML, tcltk

Kasper Daniel Hansen kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 02:11:03 CEST 2012 

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Do you need R.app?  If not, I would recommend using ActiveTcl Tcl/Tk by e.g.
>
> ./configure ...
> --with-tcl-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/tclConfig.sh
> --with-tk-config=/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/tkConfig.sh

I don't have (Tcl|Tk).framework in /Library/Frameworks.  I seem to
recall they were there in earlier versions of the OS.

I did some more investigation.  Following a suggestion on Stack overflow I did
  sudo ln -s /opt/X11/include/X11 /usr/include
and that suddenly gave me tcltk capabilities.  To be honest, I don't
understand why. I use
  --X-Includes=/Usr/X11/Include --X-Libraries=/Usr/X11/Lib
in my configure script so I don't fully understand why the presence of
this symbolic link fixes it.  But it is an empirical fact it does....

Kasper



>
> I've been using it for some time, and it has much nicer ttk widgets.
>
>
>
> On 02/09/2012 19:21, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>>
>> I now want to get tcltk support working under ML (because I need to
>> test a few packages).
>>
>> I have installed Xquartz and I have just install the new tcltk 8.5.5
>> from CRAN (which is not signed btw).
>>
>> Running configure, I get
>>
>> checking for tclConfig.sh... no
>> checking for tclConfig.sh in library (sub)directories...
>> /usr/local/lib/tclConfig.sh
>> checking for tkConfig.sh... no
>> checking for tkConfig.sh in library (sub)directories...
>> /usr/local/lib/tkConfig.sh
>> checking tcl.h usability... yes
>> checking tcl.h presence... yes
>> checking for tcl.h... yes
>> checking tk.h usability... no
>> checking tk.h presence... no
>> checking for tk.h... no
>> checking /usr/local/include/tk8.5/generic/tk.h usability... no
>> checking /usr/local/include/tk8.5/generic/tk.h presence... no
>> checking for /usr/local/include/tk8.5/generic/tk.h... no
>> checking /usr/local/include/tk8.5/tk.h usability... no
>> checking /usr/local/include/tk8.5/tk.h presence... no
>> checking for /usr/local/include/tk8.5/tk.h... no
>> checking /usr/local/include/tcl8.5/tk.h usability... no
>> checking /usr/local/include/tcl8.5/tk.h presence... no
>> checking for /usr/local/include/tcl8.5/tk.h... no
>> checking /usr/local/include/tk.h usability... no
>> checking /usr/local/include/tk.h presence... no
>> checking for /usr/local/include/tk.h... no
>> checking for tk.h... yes
>>
>> So it seems to find tcltk.  I get a few warnings when it checks for X11
>> headers:
>>
>> checking X11/Intrinsic.h presence... no
>> configure: WARNING: X11/Intrinsic.h: accepted by the compiler,
>> rejected by the preprocessor!
>> configure: WARNING: X11/Intrinsic.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
>>
>> and
>>
>> checking X11/Xmu/Atoms.h presence... no
>> configure: WARNING: X11/Xmu/Atoms.h: accepted by the compiler,
>> rejected by the preprocessor!
>> configure: WARNING: X11/Xmu/Atoms.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
>>
>> I assume these are unrelated.  Although configure seems to find tcltk,
>> at the end of configure, I get
>>
>> R is now configured for x86_64-apple-darwin12.1.0
>>
>>    Source directory:          ../R-2.15.x-src
>>    Installation directory:    /usr/local/R/R-2.15.x
>>
>>    C compiler:                /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64 -std=gnu99
>> -g -O2 -std=gnu99 -march=nocona
>>    Fortran 77 compiler:       /usr/bin/gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64  -g
>> -O2 -march=nocona
>>
>>    C++ compiler:              /usr/bin/g++-4.2 -arch x86_64  -g -O2
>> -march=nocona
>>    Fortran 90/95 compiler:    /usr/bin/gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64 -g -O2
>> -march=nocona
>>    Obj-C compiler:            /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64 -g -O2
>> -fobjc-exceptions
>>
>>    Interfaces supported:      X11, aqua
>>    External libraries:        readline, BLAS(vecLib), LAPACK(in blas), ICU
>>    Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, NLS
>>    Options enabled:           R profiling, memory profiling, Java
>>
>>    Recommended packages:      yes
>>
>> which does not mention tcltk support under 'Interfaces supported'.
>>
>> This used to work on Lion, and I am wondering what I am doing wrong.
>
>
> I think you should be wondering what Apple is doing wrong ....  But you need
> to look in config.log to find the root cause.
>
>>
>> My configure script is
>>
>> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> ../${SRCDIR}/configure SHELL='/bin/bash' \
>>    --prefix=/usr/local/R/R-${R_VERSION} --disable-R-framework\
>>    CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64 -std=gnu99" \
>>    CFLAGS="-g -O2 -std=gnu99 -march=nocona" \
>>    CXX="/usr/bin/g++-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
>>    CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=nocona" \
>>    OBJC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
>>    F77="/usr/bin/gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
>>    FFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=nocona" \
>>    FC="/usr/bin/gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
>>    FCFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=nocona" \
>>    --enable-memory-profiling\
>>    --X-Includes=/Usr/X11/Include --X-Libraries=/Usr/X11/Lib\
>>    --with-system-zlib\
>>    --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kasper
>>
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>
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