Building R-3.2.0 from source.

On 11/05/15 12:06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: 

1. R 3.2.0 is packaged for Fedora now; it's in Rawhide and Fedora 22. 
I'm running Fedora 22 (late beta) and haven't had any problems with R. 
RStudio Desktop Preview (0.99.435) from the RStudio Fedora RPM is also 
running fine. You might save yourself some hassles by upgrading to 
Fedora 22. 

I'm sure I would, but I don't dare.? Everything I see on the Fedora 
mailing list fills me with terror in respect of the disasters that can 
occur.? I don't have the skills to cope with such disasters and I have 
no access to support in respect of Fedora. 

2. I have a bash script to build R from source that works on Fedora 
22. It probably also works on Fedora 21 but it's been a while since I 
tried it. Note that it installs 'calibre' and makes the ebooks of the 
manuals. It also does some packaging things at the end you probably 
don't need. 

Thanks, but I don't think it's any help in my situation. 

I had no problem at all building R 3.1.2 from source.? What changed from 
3.1.2 to 3.2.0 that would cause those undefined reference problems? 

cheers, 

Rolf Turner 

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote: 

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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Department of Statistics 
University of Auckland 
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