[RkWard-devel] New website, release 0.3.3 (FreeBSD install)

[jjmichael at comcast.net]

1. The menu options: rkwardui.rc needs to be copied to /usr/local/share/apps/rkward (this isn't done automatically during the install).

2. Reinstalled R, this time into /usr/local.  Then reinstalled rkward using:
 
	./configure --with-extra-libs=/usr/local/lib/R/lib/ --with-extra-includes=/usr/local/lib/R/include --enable-debug=full
 
3. RHOME issues: all three were identical (/usr/local/lib/R), still didn't work.

4. rkward didn't work (still couldn't find libR.so) until I copied (on a whim) 

	sudo cp /usr/local/lib/R/lib/libR.so /usr/local/lib/libR.so

...worked fine after that.

5. Also noticed that the rkward installation did not install a /plugins folder anywhere.  Had to copy it from the build directory to get rkward to stop complaining on launch.

Thanks for the help, Thomas.  I hope this feedback will help you in development and anyone else trying to install on FreeBSD.

--Jake


> Hi Jake,
> 
> > I'm trying to build rkward on my FreeBSD-5.4 box, and have run into a
> > few snags.  I'm not in front of my box right now so I can't give all
> > the details, but here are the general problems:
> >
> > -rkward-0.3.3 configures, builds, and installs with no error
> > messages.  However, when I start it, it doesn't have any icons in the
> > toolbar, and only the "settings" and "help" menus appear in the menu
> > bar, and those menus don't have all the entries.
> 
> Most likely, this is due to a problem with the installation path. One of the 
> files needed for building the menus is "rkwardui.rc". For me this is 
> installed in /usr/share/apps/rkward. Could you try locating this file on your 
> system, and also try to find out, where other KDE applications keep 
> their .rc-files (e.g. on my sytem, there is 
> also /usr/share/apps/kwrite/kwriteui.rc)? Likely this can be fixed by 
> adjusting the --prefix option to ./configure.
> 
> > -the only odd thing I noticed during configure is that it doesn't
> > detect libpng, when I know I have it.  R detected it just fine when
> > configuring.
> 
> That is strange, but should not really matter. The configure-mechanism is 
> basically that shipped with KDE, libpng is not actually needed to compile 
> RKWard.
> 
> > -basic R functionality seem to be okay.  I can create vectors, etc.
> 
> > but when loading any library I get an error telling me that libR.so
> > can't be located (specifically that grDevices.so can't locate
> > libR.so).  I know I have libR.so and have provided the correct path
> > to it when configuring.  R itself also works as expected from the
> > terminal and can load libraries just fine.  FreeBSD seems to like
> > things in /usr/local, but I installed R in /usr out of habit.  I'm
> > not sure if this has anything to do with it.
> 
> Well, and libR.so is required for linking RKWard, so you definitely have it 
> installed, indeed. Also, this means, you used the correct option in 
> configure. 
> There is another separate (run time) setting for the environment variable 
> R_HOME. Usually, if this isn't specified correctly, RKWard will exit while 
> trying to start the R engine.
> My blind guess is, however, that there's something slightly strange about your 
> installation of R (maybe to do with /usr and /usr/local), and two different 
> settings of R_HOME work at least partially. Please try the following, and 
> compare the results:
> 
> R RHOME
> echo $R_HOME
> grep "R_HOME" ~/.kde/share/config/rkwardrc
> 
> Should you find any mismatch, you could try to change the R_HOME setting in 
> ~/.kde/share/config/rkwardrc. Please let me know about the results, as 
> probably the mechanim of guessing/detecting the R_HOME in rkward can be 
> improved.
> 
> > I know this is difficult to troubleshoot, especially since I didn't
> > get any errors during the build process, but I would appreciate any
> > feedback which would help me to get this working on FreeBSD.  I'm
> > wondering if I have some unmet dependencies that don't give errors.
> > I don't have PHP installed, but I've built without it on other
> > systems with no problems.  R and KDE are both fully installed,
> > completely from source.
> 
> PHP is not a build dependency, but it is required for all the current plugins. 
> So not having PHP installed means that some things will not work. Of course, 
> if you don't need that functionality, it's ok to go without PHP. In some 
> future version, rkward will give you better feedback on this, and disable the 
> plugins needing PHP.
> 
> > By the way, I got 0.3.3 working just fine on SLAX.  All previous
> > issues resolved with this release.  Good work.
> 
> That's good to hear. Thanks!
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
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