Let R compile for libcurl8 ?
On 03/04/2023 15:24, Detlef Steuer wrote:
Am Mon, 3 Apr 2023 15:13:58 +0100 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
On 03/04/2023 14:07, Detlef Steuer wrote:
Hi! The same Inar reported for rawhide (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2023-March/082482.html) is true for SuSE's distros. Right now R does not compile with libcurl8, but SuSE Tumbleweed/Factory switched to 8 a week ago. Would be great, if the patch Inar provided could be applied to main. Detlef
As in
CHANGES IN R 4.3.0:
...
? libcurl 8.x is now accepted by configure: despite a change in
major version number it changes neither API nor ABI.
?
What version of R are you looking at? (This has also been backported
to R 4.2.3 patched although possibly untested there.)
I was looking on R-patched, with diff from this morning. Still fails: .... [ 260s] checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config [ 260s] checking libcurl version ... 8.0.1 [ 260s] checking for curl/curl.h... yes [ 260s] checking if libcurl is version 7 and >= 7.28.0... no [ 260s] configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required with support for https [ 261s] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PUUqtM (%build) [ 261s] [ 261s] RPM build errors: [ 261s] Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.PUUqtM (%build) [ 261s] ### VM INTERACTION START ### [ 261s] [ 234.216368][ T1] sysrq: Power Off [ 261s] [ 234.218303][ T267] reboot: Power down [ 261s] ### VM INTERACTION END ### [ 261s] [ 261s] cloud124 failed "build R-patched.spec" at Mon Apr 3 10:46:27 UTC 2023. [ 261s] If it should build, I'll take a look, but because of that log it seemed to me nothing had changed in the meantime.
Again, what exactly is 'R-patched'? The latest daily tarball https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/R-patched_2023-03-29.tar.bz2 just built for me with checking for curl-config... /usr/local/bin/curl-config checking libcurl version ... 8.0.1 checking for curl/curl.h... yes checking if libcurl is >= 7.28.0... yes checking if libcurl supports https... yes and reports itself as R version 4.2.3 Patched (2023-03-29 r84146) -- "Shortstop Beagle" Although as I mentioned, I had not tested it against curl 8.0.1 and did not know if anyone else had. See also https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18497 The patch has been in R-4-2-branch since r84053 2023-03-25 12:37:42 +0000 (Sat, 25 Mar 2023) At this time of year one has to be very careful about 'R-patched' -- for example CRAN check results labelled 'r-patched' are at least mainly for 4.3.0 alpha.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford