R-devel no longer supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (insufficient PCRE version)
For the record ... I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 too (probably until 16.04 comes out) Paul
On 21/11/15 10:39, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
I think you have it backwards: Ubuntu 14.04 does not support R-devel ....
PCRE 8.32 is 3 years old, so Ubuntu 14.04 shipped an already quite old
version 19 months ago.
R has long said that its requirement was
PCRE (version 8.10 or later, preferably 8.32 or later)
and 8.32 is indeed preferable: the aim is that all the current PCRE
regex syntax be usable on all platforms.
Given that you appear to be installing R from the sources, PCRE is no
more difficult to install from source ....
R-devel is 'under development' and months off release: if this proves to
be too restrictive we can postpone the aim to 3.4.x.
On 20/11/2015 15:14, Sebastian Meyer wrote:
Since yesterday's r69662, R no longer ./configure[s] on a standard Ubuntu 14.04.3 installation, which ships with PCRE 8.31 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/libpcre3-dev) I get:
checking if PCRE version >= 8.32, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre library and headers are required
Are there any workarounds for this except for manually compiling and
installing a more recent version of PCRE from source?
Thanks!
Sebastian
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