On 10 March 2006 at 09:19, M Senthil Kumar wrote:
| On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Andris Jankevics wrote:
| |You have to install Xserver (x.org or XFree86) devel packages before
| |compiling.
|
| Although, I don't remember which package i had installed, I remember
| installing some X developer packages using apt-get earlier when ./config
| itself had complained about it. But the problem that i had written about
| earlier persists even after that during the 'make' step.
i) Ubuntu is a Debian derivative.
ii) Debian (+ thus Ubuntu) had binary ready-to-run packages for R since 1997.
Why not use them?
iii) Even if you don't run the current release, there is a backport of
the current R release available via apt-get through CRAN and its
mirrors as explained in the R FAQ
iv) If you still insist on locally building the package (for which one
may have a number of reasons) you are still _much_ better off doing
a rebuild of the Debian package, so consider learning about 'source'
entries for apt, and 'apt-get source r-base' which can download
and build R for you in one command.
v) The build dependencies you are struggling with are encoded in the
Build-Depends: field of the file debian/control. You could use
them. For record, the current version says:
Build-Depends: refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, bison,
groff-base, libncurses5-dev, libreadline5-dev, debhelper (>= 3.0.0), texi2html,
texinfo (>= 4.1-2), libbz2-dev, libpcre3-dev, tetex-bin, tetex-extra,
xpdf-reader, zlib1g-dev, libpng12-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev,
x-dev
but note that these are Debian package names which may need a tweak on
Ubuntu. If you use 'dpkg-buildpackage' it will check the Build-Depends
for you long before configure may or may not fail.
Hope this helps, Dirk
--
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
-- Thomas A. Edison
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