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R compiling on SOLARIS 2.6

3 messages · Carl Carpenter, Peter Dalgaard, Ross Ihaka

Carl Carpenter
# 
We here at HGSI have a consultant doing some statistical work for us.
HGSI bought and installed SAS, but our consultant insists that R and
Rweb is a better solution. I do not know either package so I do not
know, hence we are ditching SAS for R and Rweb. Any comments on this
are welcom.

Now for the real problem. Rweb is very expensive (time wise). The 
number of prereqs is way more than I thought when I agreed to this
project. The compiling tree looks like this


                                Rweb

                                 |
             -----------------------------------------------
            |                    |                          |

          libWWW                R                       LaTex2HTML
          
          |- URI                |- gcc 2.8.1            |- netpbm
          |                     |                       |
          |- MIME-base64        |- g77                  |- ghostscript
          |                     |                       |
          |- HTML-Parser        |- GNU make             |- LaTex
          |                     |                       |
          |- libnet             |- SUNWxwinc            |- dvips/dvipsk
          |
          |- Digest::MD5
          
*   Perl and a www server were already installed on the machine.
**  libWWW is completed
*** LaTex2HTML is spewing errors on dvips/dvipsk


All prereqs for R are installed and checked.

Ran configure script as follows

  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --x-includes=/usr/openwin/include 
--x-libs=/usr/openwin/lib

Compiling R gives these errors

  make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-0.64.0/src/nmath'
  make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-0.64.0/src/unix'
  gcc -g -O2  -I../include -I../../src/include  -c dataentry.c
  In file included from dataentry.c:24:
  dataentry.h:22: X11/X.h: No such file or directory
  dataentry.h:23: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
  dataentry.h:24: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
  dataentry.h:25: X11/keysym.h: No such file or directory
  dataentry.h:26: X11/cursorfont.h: No such file or directory
  make[2]: *** [dataentry.o] Error 1
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-0.64.0/src/unix'
  make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/R-0.64.0/src'
  make: *** [R] Error 1


Anybody have any ideas on how to make R compile cleanly?


Thanks




-carlc

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Peter Dalgaard
# 
Carl Carpenter <carlc at hgsi.com> writes:
Interesting...

Not knowing what your applications are like, it's a bit difficult to
comment on, though.
...
Shouldn't be a big problem on Solaris.

The line for compiling dataentry.c is

        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(X_CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $<

and you don't seem to be picking up the  $(X_CFLAGS). These come from
the Makeconf file created by configure. Did you by any chance forget
to remove config.cache before running configure?

[for a pure Rweb application, you probably wouldn't need X at all, but
the --without-x switch doesn't actually work, I suspect]
Ross Ihaka
#
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Carl Carpenter wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Gulp.  No I really mean GULP!

Without additional info it is hard to comment.  What is your
application?

            

      
      
      
    

        
Try leaving out the specification of where the X libraries are.
Autoconf is pretty good at figuring things like this out.

Most people I know are using X11R6 now, but I think that openwindows is
current enough for it to do the job.

            

      
      
      
    

        
The path to the X11 include files is not being set.  Try letting the
configure script discover the location of them.  If that fails, do the
configure and then try setting the correct lines in Makeconf.

My lines on Solaris look like

X_CFLAGS =  -I/usr/local/X11R6/include
X_LIBS =  -L/usr/local/X11R6/lib -R/usr/local/X11R6/lib -lX11
X_PRE_LIBS =  -lSM -lICE                                     
X_EXTRA_LIBS = -lsocket  -lnsl                               

which suggests that something like

X_CFLAGS =  -I/usr/openwin/include
X_LIBS =  -L/usr/openwin/lib -lX11
X_PRE_LIBS =                                 
X_EXTRA_LIBS = -lsocket  -lnsl                               

may work under openwindows.

Let us know what happens.  As a last resort we can get you binaries.

	Ross

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