Thanks for the tip. That could be a huge timesaver. But it lists only a single package for versions 0.90.1-2 ... how does that work? David
On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 at 12:27, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
