Weird problems in Leopard
On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
I've just bought a new iMac with 10.5.4 of OS X. I installed R 2.7.1 on it with no problems. I tried to install Xcode 3.0, but three downloads (two Firefox, one Safari) were corrupt, so I installed 3.1. Now, the weirdness: When I try to install rgl from the CRAN source, or from a local directory using R CMD INSTALL, the configure script fails with these messages: checking for X... libraries /usr/X11/lib, headers /usr/X11/include checking for glEnd in -lGL... no configure: error: missing required library GL ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgl' ** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/rgl' ** Restoring previous '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/ library/rgl' However, if I run the configure script (as ./configure) within the local directory, it succeeds: checking for X... libraries /usr/X11/lib, headers /usr/X11/include checking for glEnd in -lGL... yes I can then move the configure script out of the way and R CMD INSTALL proceeds (until it gets to the FTVectoriser error, which I'm working on fixing). Why would R CMD INSTALL make the configure script fail???
Hard to tell unless you look at config.log... Anyway, unless you work around the bug in Leopard's X11 in your configure you have fix to X11, GL is broken: http://r.research.att.com/building.html Also if you want to use X11 on Leopard seriously, it is recommended to use this update: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki Cheers, Simon