Rolf,
A few quick points as I just noticed this thread (as I don't regularly dip
into r-help any more):
1) You really do not need to builds R locally on Ubuntu. I update the
Debian package hours after Peter cuts a release. Michael rolls Ubuntu
releases off these typically the same or next day, which arrive at CRAN
in less than 72 hours after a release.
See https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
I run these binaries myself on several personal machines and dozens more
at work. They. Just. Work. Why not take advantage of a freebie?
2) If you still want to build locally, simply copy what we do. Our sources
are public. The debian/control for r-base (for Debian, albeit, don't
have Michael's here but tcl/tk has not changed in year) has
Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.1.0), [...], tcl8.6-dev, tk8.6-dev, [...]
so make sure you install those two package, and the debian/rules does
./configure --prefix=/usr \
[....]
--with-tcltk \
[....]
[...]
$(MAKE) [...]
ie nothing special for configure or make.
My most recent build then logged
checking for tclConfig.sh... no
checking for tclConfig.sh in library (sub)directories...
/usr/lib/tcl8.6/tclConfig.sh
checking for tkConfig.sh... no
checking for tkConfig.sh in library (sub)directories...
/usr/lib/tk8.6/tkConfig.sh
checking tcl.h usability... yes
checking tcl.h presence... yes
checking for tcl.h... yes
checking tk.h usability... yes
checking tk.h presence... yes
checking for tk.h... yes
checking whether compiling/linking Tcl/Tk code works... yes
which echos what Peter already said. Its final state report for
configure was
R is now configured for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Source directory: .
Installation directory: /usr
C compiler: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.4.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
Fortran 77 compiler: gfortran -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.4.2=. -fstack-protector-strong
Default C++ compiler: g++ -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.4.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
C++98 compiler: g++ -std=gnu++98 -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.4.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
C++11 compiler: g++ -std=gnu++11 -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.4.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
C++14 compiler: g++ -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.4.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
C++17 compiler: g++ -std=gnu++17 -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.4.2=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
-Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
Fortran 90/95 compiler: gfortran -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/r-base-3.4.2=. -fstack-protector-strong
Obj-C compiler:
Interfaces supported: X11, tcltk
External libraries: readline, BLAS(generic), LAPACK(generic),
curl
Additional capabilities: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, NLS, cairo, ICU
Options enabled: shared R library, R profiling, memory
profiling
Capabilities skipped:
Options not enabled: shared BLAS
Recommended packages: no
which looks pretty good to me. No capabilities. All batteries
included. (And rec'd packages is no as we package them individually).
3) r-help is the wrong list for these questions. Come to r-sig-debian
which covers R on .deb based systems. We don't bite, and it is low volume
Cheers, Dirk
--
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
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