you have all of the compiliers necessary?  There goes a shot in the dark

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@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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