Shingo Ichii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > > I just changed to FreeBSD platform, and want to install R on it. I use > > FreeBSD 5.0 and install nearly all packages on the machine. When I use > > ports to install R, (cd /usr/ports/math/R-letter, and then type make) I > > got the following error information. > > ../../../../library/methods/libs/methods.so is unchanged > > dumping R code in package 'methods' > > Fatal error: The X11 shared library could not be loaded. > > The error was /usr/ports/math/R-letter/work/R-1.6.0/modules/R_X11.so: > > Undefined symbol "R_GlobalEnv" > > I encountered the same problem. > My quick solution is: > > $ ./configure > $ make (fails) > $ cd src/main > $ rm R.bin > $ edit Makefile > (uncomment the line 81: "R_bin_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic") > $ make > $ cd ../.. > $ make > > Hope this helps.
A cleaner solution is to modify the line in configure that says freebsd[3-4].*) to have [3-5] instead. Or change it in configure.ac and run autoconf. The basic problem is that we didn't support FreeBSD v.5 before it existed... -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
