Rolf, looking at the configure script I believe you need to specify
--with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh and similarly --with-tk-config=<location of tkConfig.sh> HTH, Peter On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > On 18/11/17 17:00, Erin Hodgess wrote: >> >> When I have compiled from sourced on Ubuntu, I did NOT include the >> "with-tcltk" and it worked fine. Did you try that, please? > > > In the past I have configured without using the "--with-tcltk" flag, > and R of course built just fine. But it *did not* have tcltk capability. > When I wanted that capability I had to start using the > aforesaid flag. > > It makes absolutely no sense that one would get tcltk capability when > configuring without the flag but *not* get it when configuring *with* the > flag. If that is indeed the case then this definitely constitutes a bug in > the "configure" system. > > I cannot believe that it would work to leave out the flag, but I'll try it > just for the sake of "completeness". > > cheers, > > Rolf > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.