On 15/05/2015 01:19, Smith, Virgil wrote:
The R Installation and Administration manual section A.1 states that glibc
should provide a suitable iconv function, but I can't get R's configure script
to accept/validate iconv on a Linux platform I need to support using glibc 2.20.
Is glibc is actually compatible (and/or is gnu libiconv essentially the only
path)?
R is built daily on Fedora 21 Linux which uses glibc 2.20 and has been
for at least a decade with that and earlier versions of glibc. No
problems with installing using glibc have been reported in all that time
(and many dialects of Linux have been used successfully).
If glibc should work, what should I check to troubleshoot my environment?
The configure error I get is
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-*"... no
configure: error: a suitable iconv is essential
You look in config.log for the details we cannot even guess at.
My full list of installed glibc / libc packages is
glibc-binary-localedata-en-gb - 2.20-r0
glibc-binary-localedata-en-us - 2.20-r0
glibc-gconv - 2.20-r0
glibc-gconv-utf-16 - 2.20-r0
glibc-locale-en-gb - 2.20-r0
libc6 - 2.20-r0
libc6-dev - 2.20-r0
libc6-extra-nss - 2.20-r0
libc6-thread-db - 2.20-r0
This is for a custom Linux build, not a major distro, so unfortunately I cannot
use pre-packaged configurations.
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Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
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