On 10 May 2015, at 14:15 , Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
I am just now getting around to upgrading from 3.1.2 to 3.2.0 and am getting hammered by a problem which is beyond my limited capabilities of handling.
I executed
./configure --with-tcltk --with cairo
which seemed to go just fine, and then did:
make
In fairly short order I started getting error messages like unto:
connections.o: In function `gzcon_write':
/home/rolf/Desktop/Rinst/R-3.2.0/src/main/connections.c:5469: undefined reference to `deflate'
There were also complaints about undefined references to inflate, crc32, deflateEnd, inflateEnd, inflateReset, inflateInit2_, deflateInit2_, compress, uncompress, and zlibVersion, many of which were issued repeatedly. It finally gave up, saying:
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
A bit of googling informed me (I think?) that a workaround was to configure using --without-system-pcre. This however achieved nothing in my case.
Can anyone point me at what I need to do to fix this? Install or update something?
I am running an (elderly, no-longer-supported) Fedora 17 Linux.
Thanks for any assistance.