Sayan, On Aug 29, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Sayan Pathak wrote:
> Thanks for the fast response. > > I downloaded the tar ball and uncompressed it. Then ran the > configure script under R-2.5.1 > as suggested in the http://r.research.att.com/exp/ > > I am getting the following messages after the configure script goes > on and just before it stalls. > > >> checking for cblas_cdotu_sub in vecLib framework... -framework > vecLib > >> checking for dgemm_ in -framework vecLib... yes > >> checking whether double complex BLAS can be used... no > >> checking whether the BLAS is complete... yes > >> checking for zgeev_... yes > >> checking iconv.h usability... yes > >> checking iconv.h presence... yes > >> checking for iconv.h... yes > >> checking for iconv... no > >> checking for iconvlist... no > >> configure: error: --with-iconv=yes (default) and a suitable iconv > is not available > > I have no idea what iconv is. man iconv will tell you > My apologies if this is a naive question. I am new to Mac and also > compiling R from source for the first time. Could you please suggest > what should I be doing? Use --without-iconv (or compile 64-bit libiconv from Apple sources if you know how). Tiger has 32-bit iconv only, so you have either to disable iconv support or to get the 64-bit version. Cheers, Simon > > On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:02 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > >> >> On Aug 28, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Sayan Pathak wrote: >> >>> I was trying to build the R build using the directions given at >>> http://r.research.att.com/exp/. >>> >>> I got through most of the steps till it asked me to run ./configure. >>> My question is where is this file located? I am looking at /Library/ >>> Frameworks/R.framework. I tried searching for file titled >>> "configure" >>> but got an empty return. >>> >> >> You're looking at the already installed *binary* verison of R. In >> order to compile R you need it in its *source* form. You can get it >> from CRAN, for example >> http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.5.1.tar.gz >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
