[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#590126: rcmdr: FTBFS on mips{, el}: Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded

[Shane McDonald]

Hi Dirk:

  In looking at the build dependencies for rcmdr, I see that it
requires r-base-dev,
which requires r-base-core, which then requires tcl8.5 on all architectures
but m68k, mips, and mipsel.  That's not a problem for m68k,
because it requires tcl8.4 instead, but there doesn't seem to be any
build dependency for any version of tcl on mips or mipsel.
Perhaps that's the problem?

  I hope this helps.

Shane

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Fellow Tcl/Tk maintainer,
>
> Could you please take a look at the thread below / in #590126 ?  I got tagged
> with a 'ftbfs' for an R package that cannot load R's 'tcltk' package (part of the
> default build, hence of source package r-base and binary r-base-core) on the
> mips and mipsel platforms.  Is that a known regression, or is it new?
>
>
> On 27 July 2010 at 11:45, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | (Resending, this time with correct email address. Doh. --Dirk)
> |
> | Dear MIPSers,
> |
> | I am in need of some help here -- r-base stopped building with tcl/tk
> | support, and this now trickles down to R packages using tcl/tk (which fail,
> | as in this FTBFS).
> |
> | There was no change whatsoever at R, and other arches continue to work.
> |
> | I can accomodate things, but I would need a hand from someone with mips /
> | mipsel expertise.  Was this local and isolated (and would a rebuild fix it?)
> | or is this more structural?
> |
> | Thanks,  Dirk
> | (Debian R dude)
> |
> | On 25 July 2010 at 15:22, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | | On 25 July 2010 at 01:05, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> | | | * Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>, 2010-07-24, 11:34:
> | | | >| Your package failed to build from source on mips[0] and mipsel[1] with
> | | | >| the following error:
> | | | >|
> | | | >| | Error in firstlib(which.lib.loc, package) :
> | | | >| |   Tcl/Tk support is not available on this system
> | | | >| | Error : package 'tcltk' could not be loaded
> | | | >| | ERROR: loading failed
> | | | >
> | | | >That means that r-base itself did not build right.
> | | |
> | | | Indeed.
> | | |
> | | | >All R versions should have "tcltk" on all platforms.
> | | | >
> | | | >Is there a known regression on mips / mipsel with tcl/tk ?
> | | |
> | | | I don't know of any, but I'm not a mips porter.
> | |
> | | According to buildd at
> | |
> | | https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=r-base;ver=2.11.1-2%2Bb1;arch=mipsel;stamp=1279384803
> | |
> | | the configure detection for tcl did in fact go belly-up:
> | |
> | | checking for tclConfig.sh... no
> | | checking for tclConfig.sh in library
> | | (sub)directories... /usr/lib/tcl8.5/tclConfig.sh
> | | checking for tkConfig.sh... no
> | | checking for tkConfig.sh in library
> | | (sub)directories... /usr/lib/tk8.5/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... no
> | |
> | | That last line should have been a yes.  Who do we talk to now? tcl
> | | maintainers?  Mips porters?
> | |
> | | Dirk
> | |
> | |
> | | | --
> | | | Jakub Wilk
> | | |
> | | | [GNUPG:] ERRSIG 2D4EB3A6015475F5 1 8 01 1280012697 9
> | | | [GNUPG:] NO_PUBKEY 2D4EB3A6015475F5
> | |
> | | --
> | | Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
> | |
> |
> | --
> | Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>
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> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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