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| -rw-r--r-- | reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk | 19 |
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diff --git a/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk b/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk index 3c5e518..c3bda3e 100644 --- a/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk +++ b/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk @@ -1181,6 +1181,24 @@ $(ibidir)/pcre-$(pcre-version): , V=1 -j$(numthreads)) echo "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions $(pcre-version)" > $@ +# Comment on building R without GUI support ('--without-tcltlk') +# +# Tcl/Tk are a set of tools to provide Graphic User Interface (GUI) support +# in some software. But they are not yet natively built within Maneage, +# primarily because we have higher-priority work right now (if anyone is +# interested, they can ofcourse contribute!). GUI tools in general aren't +# high on our priority list right now because they are generally good for +# human interaction (which is contrary to the reproducible philosophy: +# there will always be human-error and frustration, for example in GUI +# tools the best level of reproducibility is statements like this: "move +# your mouse to button XXX, then click on menu YYY and etc"). A robust +# reproducible solution must be done automatically. +# +# If someone wants to use R's GUI functionalities while investigating for +# their analysis, they can do the GUI part on their host OS +# implementation. Later, they can bring the finalized source into Maneage +# to be automatically run in Maneage. This will also be the recommended way +# to deal with GUI tools later when we do install them within Maneage. $(ibidir)/R-$(R-version): \ $(ibidir)/pcre-$(pcre-version) \ $(ibidir)/cairo-$(cairo-version) \ @@ -1204,6 +1222,7 @@ $(ibidir)/R-$(R-version): \ --with-pcre1 \ --disable-java \ --with-readline \ + --without-tcltk \ --disable-openmp make -j$(numthreads) make install |