[R] tcltk problems

[Albrecht Kauffmann]

Did you istall the tcl- and tk-devel packages?

Best, Albrecht

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  Albrecht Kauffmann
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Am Sa, 18. Nov 2017, um 05:00, schrieb Erin Hodgess:
> When I have compiled from sourced on Ubuntu, I did NOT include the
> "with-tcltk" and it worked fine.  Did you try that, please?
> 
> Thanks,
> Erin
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > It recently came to my attention that my R installation no longer has
> > tcltk capability.
> >
> > I can't figure out why or what to do about it.
> >
> > I built R from source.  I configured using the "--with-tcltk" flag.  The
> > build and install *seemed* to go OK, but after realising I didn't have
> > tcltk capability I looked into config.log.
> >
> > There I found:
> >
> > configure:39486: checking for tclConfig.sh
> >> configure:39519: result: no
> >> configure:39528: checking for tclConfig.sh in library (sub)directories
> >> configure:39549: result: no
> >> configure:39561: checking for tkConfig.sh
> >> configure:39594: result: no
> >> configure:39603: checking for tkConfig.sh in library (sub)directories
> >> configure:39624: result: no
> >> configure:39721: checking for tcl.h
> >> conftest.c:249:17: fatal error: tcl.h: No such file or directory
> >> compilation terminated.
> >>
> >
> > I have tcl and tk (and the -dev versions) installed on my machine, and
> > they are apparently up-to-date).
> >
> > Moreover if I do "locate tclConfig.sh" I get:
> >
> > /usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh
> >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh
> >>
> >
> > And likewise "locate tcl.h" produces:
> >
> > /usr/include/tcl8.6/tcl.h
> >> /usr/include/tcl8.6/tcl-private/generic/tcl.h
> >>
> >
> > So why can't "configure" find these files, and how can I tell it where to
> > find them?
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and my last install of R was of version 3.4.2.
> >
> > My installation procedure always worked in the past ....
> >
> > Thanks for any tips.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Rolf Turner
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Mathematical and Statistics
> University of Houston - Downtown
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