On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 08:55 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: [snip] > rgl needs to know where the X11 headers and libs are, and it appears > that the configure script (which was written by autoconfig) isn't > finding them. You probably need to specify them manually, when you run > configure: > > --x-includes=DIR X include files are in DIR > --x-libraries=DIR X library files are in DIR > > If you built R, you can find where R found these by looking at the > config.log: search for X_CFLAGS and X_LIBS, and you'll see something like > > X_CFLAGS=' -I/usr/X11R6/include' > X_LIBS=' -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXt -lXmu' > > which should mean that this would install rgl on this system: > > R CMD INSTALL rgl --configure-args="--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include > --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib" > > (In fact, the configure script found them in those locations by itself.) > > Duncan Murdoch
Thanks for the response, but meanwhile I figured the solution and have just posted it to the list! It seems that the r-base-dev package from the Ubuntu R backport doesn't provide *all* the packages necessary to build add-on libraries. Greets, Ivailo ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.
