Building R-3.2.0 from source.
On 05/11/2015 09:42 AM, Rolf Turner wrote:
It certainly did! Success. Thank you hugely! But if I may ask a supplementary question: You say "If you really want to build from source ....". No, I don't *want* to; I have to. At least in my understanding. I run the ancient and beyond end-of-life Fedora 17. (I haven't the nerve to try to upgrade; my current system may be kludgey, but at least it works. And I *know* that if I try to upgrade all hell will break loose.) It is my understanding that "current Fedora releases" *do not* include Fedora 17. Or do they? If so, how would I get my hands on an R binary for Fedora 17? That's really just an academic question at present, since I have now managed, thanks to your help, to build R 3.2.0 from source.
Wow. Well, I can't say that I'm building anything for end-of-lifed Fedora releases, though I understand your predicament. That said, I am still building for EL5, which is older than Fedora 17, so you could try to rebuild the R src.rpm from koji. If it does not work properly, let me know, and I will try to fix the conditionals so that it does. Glad you got it working. :) ~tom == Red Hat