When I have compiled from sourced on Ubuntu, I did NOT include the "with-tcltk" and it worked fine. Did you try that, please?
Thanks, Erin On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > It recently came to my attention that my R installation no longer has > tcltk capability. > > I can't figure out why or what to do about it. > > I built R from source. I configured using the "--with-tcltk" flag. The > build and install *seemed* to go OK, but after realising I didn't have > tcltk capability I looked into config.log. > > There I found: > > configure:39486: checking for tclConfig.sh >> configure:39519: result: no >> configure:39528: checking for tclConfig.sh in library (sub)directories >> configure:39549: result: no >> configure:39561: checking for tkConfig.sh >> configure:39594: result: no >> configure:39603: checking for tkConfig.sh in library (sub)directories >> configure:39624: result: no >> configure:39721: checking for tcl.h >> conftest.c:249:17: fatal error: tcl.h: No such file or directory >> compilation terminated. >> > > I have tcl and tk (and the -dev versions) installed on my machine, and > they are apparently up-to-date). > > Moreover if I do "locate tclConfig.sh" I get: > > /usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh >> > > And likewise "locate tcl.h" produces: > > /usr/include/tcl8.6/tcl.h >> /usr/include/tcl8.6/tcl-private/generic/tcl.h >> > > So why can't "configure" find these files, and how can I tell it where to > find them? > > I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and my last install of R was of version 3.4.2. > > My installation procedure always worked in the past .... > > Thanks for any tips. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > 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/posti > ng-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Mathematical and Statistics University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.