Binding with libiconv failed while compiling R-devel on Ubuntu 17.04
Thanks for helping. The story so far: I have been using R-devel for about one year, and installed it with the same protocol. Last time I compiled it, it was about 2 months ago, with no problem. I had not problems with packages and BioConductor working like a charm too. Now, where I am currently stuck is the linking part: === gcc -Wl,--export-dynamic -fopenmp -L"../../lib" -L/usr/local/lib -o R.bin Rmain.o -lR -lRblas ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `u_versionToString_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `u_getVersion_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `ucol_open_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `ucol_setStrength_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `libiconv' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_close' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `ucol_strcollIter_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `_libiconv_version' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `libiconv_open' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `ucol_close_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `ucol_setAttribute_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `uloc_setDefault_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `ucol_getLocaleByType_54' ../../lib/libR.so: undefined reference to `uiter_setUTF8_54' === The full trace is https://pastebin.com/7Pyn4Bwv The configuration trace is https://pastebin.com/j1DR3WLM I can provide any info you will consider useful. Thanks again, Matthias.
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Thanks for posting here. On 24 October 2017 at 14:14, Matthias Zytnicki wrote: | Dear everyone, | | I posted a similar question to Stack Overflow there: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46907554/binding-with-libiconv-failed-while-compiling-r-devel-on-ubuntu-17-04 and I was suggested to post my question here. | | I tried to compile R devel using Dirk Eddelbuettel's recipe (and many variants of it). Regardless of what I do, I have: | === | [...]/src/main/sysutils.c:794: undefined reference to `libiconv' | [...] | [...]/src/main/platform.c:3052: undefined reference to `u_getVersion_54' | [...] | === | add many other similar lines, similar to the last comment of http://jtremblay.github.io/software_installation/2017/06/21/Install-R-3.4.0-and-RStudio-on-Ubuntu-16.04 | | (Of note: the offending line does not contain "libiconv" per se, but instead "iconv(...)".) | | It seems that libiconv is now in libc6. I checked that these packages are correctly installed, and updated (with Gnome Ubuntu 17.04): | - libc6-dev | - libicu-dev | - build-essential | - fort77 | - xorg-dev | - liblzma-dev | - libblas-dev | - gfortran | - gcc-multilib | - gobjc++ | - aptitude | - libreadline-dev | - libcurl4-openssl-dev | - default-jdk | - texlive-latex-base | - libcairo2-dev | | The configuration step regarding libiconv seems ok: | === | checking iconv.h usability... yes | checking iconv.h presence... yes | checking for iconv.h... yes | checking for iconv... yes | checking whether iconv accepts "UTF-8", "latin1", "ASCII" and "UCS-*"... yes | checking for iconvlist... no | checking for iconv... yes | checking for iconv declaration... | extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft); | === | The command iconv -l seems to work fine. This C file compiles with no problem either: | === | #include <iconv.h> | | int main( int argc, char **argv ) { | iconv_t cd = iconv_open( "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1" ); | iconv_close( cd ); | return 0; | } | === | So libiconv seems to be indeed usable, but not during the linking. | | Where should I look? Something _must be_ wrong with your machine. We probably need more complete details of the configure and link steps. Do you ever have issues with building other CRAN packages from source? Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org