This seems to have gone unanswered.
The difference in building R as a shared library is in the R-admin manual. Quick summary: you slowed R down by ca 15%.
Both my FC3 systems build gnomeGUI. In any case, the information about gnome version is also in the R-admin manual, and FC3 has
gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44 gnome-libs-devel-1.4.1.2.90-44
More likely you do not have these at all than you have `2.0X'
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Paul Johnson wrote:
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.
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