[R] Problems when building R with gnome support (Mandrake Linux)

[Laurent Gautier]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 07:44:48AM +0200, Jan_Svatos at eurotel.cz wrote:
> Hi R-Community,
> 
> I faced problems when building R 1.5.1 from sources on i686-linux-gnu
> (Mandrake Linux 8.2)
> _with gnome support_
> 
> After running configure:
> 
> ./configure --with-x --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include
> --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --with-gnome
> --with-gnome-includes=/usr/include/gnome-1.0
> --with-gnome-libs=/usr/lib/gnome-libs --with-readline
> 
> R is configured this way:
> ---
> R is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
>   Source directory:          .
>   Installation directory:    /usr/local
>   C compiler:                gcc  -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -g -O2
>   C++ compiler:              g++  -mieee-fp -g -O2
>   FORTRAN compiler:          g77  -g -O2
> 
>   X11 support:               yes
>   Gnome support:             no
>   Tcl/Tk support:            yes
>   Readline support:          yes
> 
>   R profiling support:       yes
>   R as a shared library:     no
> 
> configure: WARNING: GNOME support requires libglade version >= 0.3
> ---
> 
> where the rows given by configure are:
> 
> checking for libglade-config... no
> checking for libglade... no
> 
> But there IS libglade RMP installed with .so needed:
> RPM libglade0-0.17-2mdk
> provides
> /usr/lib/libglade.so.0.4.2
> /usr/lib/libglade.so.0
> 
> therefore there is libglade version >=0.3.



...but you may need some abc-devel rpms too...
you do have libglade0-devel installed, don't you ?



> 
> The same problem occurs even when I try --with-gnome-libs=/usr/lib

I built R on Mandrake 8.2 and I did not have to specify the path...
I think the problem comes from missing '.h' files...

> 
> Should I change some compile flags?
> How can I tell configure to take into account /usr/lib/libglade.so.0.4.2 ?
> Should I modify config.site?
> Am I doing something completely wrong?
> 
> TIA,
> Jan
> 
> PS: I know about RPM for Mandrake on CRAN, but I try to install R from
> sources.
> 
> 
> 
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