From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri May 12 17:50:37 2000
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:50:37 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] X11 not present leads to compile error (PR#543)
In-Reply-To: <200005121555.RAA24885@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10005121748530.22244-100000@auk.stats>

On Fri, 12 May 2000 vilhuber@yorku.ca wrote:

> Full_Name: Lars Vilhuber
> Version: 1.0.1
> OS: Linux (SuSE 6.3)
> Submission from: (NULL) (148.129.143.2)
> 
> 
> Problem arises when X11 headers not present.
> 
> - When running "./configure", X11 is not found, and "no" appears on the log
> messages.
> However, at compile time, the X11 headers are still referenced, and the
> compilation 
> bombs. I presume that either configuration should end with an error message, or
> 
> compilation ( makefiles or src files ) should respect the absence of X11
> headers.

This is already fixed for 1.1.0: please try the R-devel snapshot.
(It certainly works with --without-x, and we would certainly be interested
to know if that is actually needed.)

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[Rd] X11 not present leads to compile error (PR#543)
Prof Brian D Ripley