1) A new version of dev-lang/R has been released: 1.8.0 2) The Ebuild of R-1.7.1 has to bugs: a) Concerning tcltk support. My ebuild has an error in the src_compile() part: if use tcltk: the flags needs to be changed from --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh to --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh (note that tcl is written under the tk option) b) Concerning Gnome Support: the required libs are wrong. I have tested it with gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.4 =gnome-base/libglade-0.17* >=dev-libs/libxml-1.8.16 >=gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.12 >=media-libs/imlib-1.9.10 >=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10 >=dev-libs/glib-1.2.10 >=media-sound/esound-0.2.23 >=media-libs/audiofile-0.2.1 )" Concerning libglade: basically the version needs to be bigger than 0.17 and less than 2. I didn't know how to code this. 3) I think dev-lang/R needs to be moved to the stable branch. It is a tried and tested statistical package and the two problems above (gnome support, tcl/tk support) are not a big issue - gnome support is really not the focus of the development team (eg. is it left out of the Redhat rpms), and tcl/tk is also less important (but substantially more important than gnome). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Emerge R 2. 3. Actual Results: At the start of the output from src_compile(), R prints a message as to what libraries and capabilities are supported when compiling. These messages needs to mention tcl/tk support as well as gnome support
*** Bug 31223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Added 1.8.0 to portage with the suggested fixes. Please test. Thanks for the submission! george
Tested: it works! I see the line =libglad-0.17* is unchanged. As reported in the original bug it (ought to) build for any version of libglade >=.17 og <2.0, but I didn't know how to code this. Nevertheless, the only ebuild of libglade with a version below 2 is version 0.17 - so I guess it does not matter. I would close the bug and move it to STABLE
