Building R-3.2.0 from source.
I am cross-posting this to r-sig-fedora (I hope that's not an egregious
sin) in the hope that doing so might provide some source of insight.
I tried
sudo yum install zlib
and was told
Package zlib-1.2.5-7.fc17.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Likewise for "zlib-devel".
I also tried
sudo yum install bzlib
and was told
No package bzlib available.
Likewise for "bzlib-devel". Finally I sort of got some joy with "lzma" and "lzma-devel" --- both of those yielded an actual installation. But it didn't help. I re-did the configure and then the make and got the same errors/complaints about undefined references to deflate, inflate, crc32, etc. Can anyone provide any guidance/suggestions about what else I could try? I'm getting very frustrated! :-) cheers, Rolf Turner
On 11/05/15 00:50, peter dalgaard wrote:
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.
PCRE (regular expressions) won't help you with compression algorithms... If anything, it is --without-system-xz, -zlib, -bzlib that would come into play, but it would be a better idea to ensure that you do have the libraries and headers installed. I'm not completely up to speed on Fedora, but the order of the day is that you need to install some variation of lzma/zlib/bzlib and their -dev/-devel header files etc. Check appendix A.1 and A.2 of the R Installation and Administration manual.
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