>>>>> Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com>
>>>>> on Tue, 26 May 2015 11:13:41 -0400 writes:
> False alarm. Completely wiping out my build directory followed by
> ../R-devel/configure --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh
> - --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh; make
> seems to work. (My fault for assuming repeated cycles of
> ./configure; make would actually do the right thing ...)
> There seems to be a corollary of Clarke's Law ("any sufficient
> advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic") that says that
> any sufficiently complex software system may *not* be magic, but it's
> just easier to treat it as though it is ...
> Thanks for the offer of help ...
I also run several computers on Ubuntu 14.04
and never had to anything special, I mean *no*
--with-tcl-... or --with-tk-....
where ever needed for me on 14.04 or earlier Ubuntu's... so I do
wonder how you got into problems at all.
Martin
> Ben
> On 15-05-26 10:25 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>
>> Ben,
>>
>> At work with little time so _real brief_:
>>
>> -- we build r-devel "all the time", in fact nightly for rocker; and
>> there are Dockerfiles to look at
>>
>> -- we build R all the time in Debian, Ubuntu, ... and my sources
>> for that are not on GH but you can fetch the diff.gz
>>
>> -- there is an entire list dedicated to this: r-sig-debian so could
>> you pretty-please post there (after registering, if needed)
>>
>> I'll be glad to help, preferably on r-sig-debian.
>>
>> Cheers, Dirk
>>
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