From lyndon@stat.auckland.ac.nz  Tue Nov 16 00:53:13 1999
From: lyndon@stat.auckland.ac.nz (Lyndon Drake)
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:53:13 +1300
Subject: Compilation of R under Mandrake Linux 6.1 (helios)
In-Reply-To: <199911121527.PAA12731@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>; from Prof Brian Ripley on Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:27:31PM +0000
References: <199911121527.PAA12731@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <19991116135313.C8605@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>

On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:27:31PM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:12:25 -0500
> > From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca>
> > 
> [Quoting PD]
> 
> > >It's not supposed to unless you configure --with-gnome, which does
> > >work on RH6.1, so why not on Mandrake.
> > 
> > I expect it works with Mandrake, I didn't try. At first I was a little 
> surprized
> > by configure's message, something like  "Gnome: no". I thought configure
> > couldn't recognize that I was running Gnome, but after quickly scanning
> > configure I decided it had to be specified. Perhaps a message like "not
> > specified" would be less confusing than "no" for things like this?
> 
> How to install Gnome support is in the INSTALL file. I have found it
> very tricky, as both too early and too late versions of the support
> files failed. Last time I tried libglade 0.7 (the then current one) did
> not work, but 0.3 still does despite the remark in that file about
> needing `libglade 0.5 or later'.

Actually, you will get some segfaults and misplaced GUI items with earlier
libglades than 0.5.

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Compilation of R under Mandrake Linux 6.1 (helios)
Lyndon Drake