On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear R users: > > Maybe it is a silly question, but I'm don't understand what am I doing > wrong (I make the same steps, and it works). > > In a new karmik koala ubuntu installation I compile the last patched > 2.10.1 version of R (r51070). > > Every thing was right (I install all the dev libraries I need). > > First I type: > > ./configure --enable-R-shlib > > And I obtain: >
Dear Kenneth: Let me share you a handy thing I learned. You can get the commands that the R packages are built with, along with the source code. Make a directory (this will download a bunch of stuff) apt-get source r-base-core that should download a tarball of original R source code, a diff file that is applied to build R deb, and it will open the code and apply the diff. You can look inside the directory, in a subdirectory "debian", where the configure files that control package building are kept. If you type "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" in the directory where all that stuff got opened up (the one "above" the debian subdirectory), it will build the debian packages. It would not be an incredibly difficult thing to replace that R source package with the new one you want to use. But I don't think you need to. Just look in the rules file under debian subdirectory, you will see the configure statement they use. I think in there you'll also find information about what devel packages they assume you have. I find it to be a little difficult to revise debian builds, so I don't really mean you ought to do that. But you could. And I often have! -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
