Hello, everybody:
On a Fedora Core 3 Linux system, I built R-2.1 using an updated version of the spec file that was used to make the RPMs for version 2.0.1 on the CRAN system. The build was fine, and packages updates perfectly. Thanks!
Then I got curious about the package gnomeGUI. While trying to build that, I see errors
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* Installing *Frontend* package 'gnomeGUI' ...
Using R Installation in R_HOME=/usr/lib/R
R was not built as a shared library
Need a shared R library
ERROR: configuration failed for package 'gnomeGUI'
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So then I look back at re-building R, and see
> ./configure --help
I see these two items that seem to contradict each other. Why is the first defaulted to "no" and the second one "yes"? What's the difference?
--enable-R-shlib build R as a shared library [no]
[...snip...]
--enable-shared[=PKGS]
build shared libraries [default=yes]I built with --enable-R-shlib and all seemed fine.
Anyway, it turns out it was all for nothing, because the Gnome package wants the Gnome-1.4 libraries, whereas I have 2.0X. So, I'm going to forget about gnomeGUI, but I wonder: did I do any harm by building R with the non-default --enable-R-shared? Can it potentially break something?
As far as I can see, new R runs great. -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700
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