[R-SIG-Mac] Rglpk package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 19/08/2013 05:02, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Michael Weylandt wrote:
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>> On Aug 18, 2013, at 15:47, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 18, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Horst R. Wolf wrote:
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>>>> Is there any reason why the OS X binary is still not available?
>>>
>>> Perhaps you should offer your basis for thinking, incorrectly, that it is not available.
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>> Seems it's not building on CRAN:
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>> http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-x86_64/Rglpk-00check.html
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>
> Yup, the package apparently doesn't use working flags to link against glpk. According to dependency flags it's missing -lgmp -lm -- it should probably use autoconf to detect the proper flags as glpk can be compiled with or without gmp support.

Note that this is only an issue for static libraries: if shared aka 
dynamic libraries are built correctly dependencies are pulled in.  Tha 
means that if you want to install Rglpk you can do so against a 
self-build of glpk as a shared library (and is what I have done).

Since AFAICS glpk does not provide a pkg-config file, it is hard for 
anyone other than its installer to know what is needed.



> Cheers,
> Simon
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>> Michael
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