On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Lentes, Bernd < bernd.len...@helmholtz-muenchen.de> wrote:
> > > ----- Am 8. Nov 2016 um 15:26 schrieb Johannes Ranke > johannes.ra...@jrwb.de: > > > Hi > > > > try > > > > apt-get build-dep r-base > > > > this installs the headers required for building current R, which > probably also > > covers older versions - at least it will give you X11 headers. > > > > Good luck, > > > > Johannes > > > > > Hi Johannes, > > i tried that and it didn't work. > > Bernd > If you expect people to help you need to be much more explicit about what you mean by "it didn't work". As you have discovered, building an old version of R on a current system may not be a simple task. Over my career I have resorted to porting old software to current platforms a few times in order to understand puzzling results from some past calculation. I have learned to hang on to old manuals so I at least have documentation for function arguments and compiler flags on the original system. You might consider alternatives: 1. running an older OS and R in a VM 2. porting your old R package to a current version of R 3. finding a current R package with the functionality of the old package 4. building an old version of R without X11 graphics, as in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26263934/compile-r-with-cairo-support-without-x11 5. building the current version of R to ensure that you have a working build environment, then porting the old version of R to that environment. Since I have access to a system with the development packages needed for a current R, I just tried "./configure" for R-2.5.1 and get: configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available Looking in config.log, I see: configure:44433: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -L/usr /local/lib64 conftest.c -lXt -ldl -lm >&5 /tmp/cc8fJIay.o: In function `main': /home/gwhite/Documents/Testing/R-2.5.1/conftest.c:205: undefined reference to `XrmInitialize' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status configure:44439: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */ | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R" | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.5.1" | #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 2.5.1" [...] #define SUPPORT_MBCS 1 | /* end confdefs.h. */ | #include <X11/Xlib.h> | #ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN | | # ifdef __cplusplus | extern "C" | # endif | int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; } | | #endif | int | main () | { | XrmInitialize () | ; | return 0; | } configure:44503: result: no configure:46230: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available >From past experience, this led me to try: ./configure LIBS=X11 which worked, as did "make" and "make check". -- George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
