On 30 July 2018 at 05:35, David Hugh-Jones wrote: | Hi guys, | | Perhaps someone here can help. | | I am trying to build versions of R 1 for the rcheology package (just | arrived on CRAN). | | For R prior to 1.5.0, I cannot configure support for tcl-tk. | | I am building on Debian Woody (provided by Docker debian/eol) and have the | following packages installed: | r-base-dev tclx8.3-dev tk8.3-dev xvfb xbase-clients x-window-system-core | | I download R source from http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-1 and run | | ./configure --with-tcl-tk=yes | --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tcl8.3/tclConfig.sh | --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tk8.3/tkConfig.sh | | These are the locations for the relevant tkConfig.sh and tclConfig.sh files. | This gives output as follows: | | R is now configured for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu | | Source directory: . | Installation directory: /usr/local | | C compiler: gcc -g -O2 | C++ compiler: c++ -g -O2 | FORTRAN compiler: g77 -g -O2 | X11 support: yes | Gnome support: no | Tcl/Tk support: no | R profiling support: yes | R as a shared library: no | | And config.log reveals: | configure:13099: checking for /usr/lib/tcl8.3/tclConfig.sh | configure:13134: checking for /usr/lib/tk8.3/tkConfig.sh | configure:13204: checking for /usr/include/tcl8.3/tcl.h | configure:13214: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c >/dev/null | 2>conftest.out | configure:13313: checking for /usr/include/tk8.3/tk.h | configure:13323: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include | -I/usr/include | /tcl8.3 conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out | configure:13319: /usr/include/tk8.3/tk.h: No such file or directory | configure: failed program was: | #line 13318 "configure" | #include "confdefs.h" | #include </usr/include/tk8.3/tk.h> | configure:13348: checking for /usr/include/tk.h | configure:13358: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include | -I/usr/include | /tcl8.3 conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out | configure:13354: /usr/include/tk.h: No such file or directory | configure: failed program was: | #line 13353 "configure" | #include "confdefs.h" | #include </usr/include/tk.h> | configure:13385: checking for tk.h | configure:13389: tk.h: No such file or directory | | In fact, tk.h is in /usr/include/tcl8.3/ , despite the failed program | compilation report. | | R 1.5.0 and above work fine. Can anyone remember far back, if something | changed in the configure script? | | Alternatively, those who are feeling brave can download the Docker image | creation scripts from github.com/hughjonesd/rcheology .
Have you considered the actual Debian packages from "way back then" ? Debian has this nifty snapshot archive where you can get old binaries: http://snapshot.debian.org/ For (source package) r-base we see 3.5.1 all the way down to 0.61.2 http://snapshot.debian.org/package/r-base/ Alternatively, the package itself is now (finally, my bad) in a git repo which goes back to 0.61.2 as well (using snapshot as the feeder) https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base/commits/master Hth, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
