install pcre
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On May 13, 2019 8:31:22 PM MDT, yueli <yueli7 at 126.com> wrote:
Hello, I am trying to install R. Thanks in advance for any help! Yue checking for pcre.h... yes checking pcre/pcre.h usability... no checking pcre/pcre.h presence... no checking for pcre/pcre.h... no checking if PCRE version >= 8.20, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre >= 8.20 library and headers are required [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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