On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:33:08 -0500
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
Rolf,
I am truly sorry but I am getting lost in your original message.
Could you follow-up and describe (concisely, if possible) what your
question is? Is it
- installing 4.1.1 or 4.1.0
- developing a package of yours
- installing a package ?
Sorry if I over-egged my explanation.
* I am trying to install R 4.1.0 (the previous version of R).
I have the current version, R 4.1.1 (readily available as a Linux
binary) up and going; no problema.
* My desire to install 4.1.0 was *motivated* by a strange
conundrum with respect to a package that I am developing.
But that's *not* actually relevant at the moment.
* I successfully downloaded the source for R 4.1.0 and started
the configure -> make sequence. But things came to a halt with the
configure error shown in the subject line.
* I then fooled around with installing/uninstalling various flavours
of libcurl.dev to see if I could get rid of the configure error.
Nothing worked.
I hope that my problem is clear now.
cheers,
Rolf