On 25 February 2019 at 18:25, robin hankin wrote: | Hi there, ubuntu 18.04.2, trying to compile R-devel 3.6.0, svn 76155. | | I am having difficulty compiling R. I think I have pcre installed correctly: | | OK~/Downloads/R-devel pcretest -C | PCRE version 8.41 2017-07-05 | Compiled with | 8-bit support | UTF-8 support | No Unicode properties support | No just-in-time compiler support | Newline sequence is LF | \R matches all Unicode newlines | Internal link size = 2 | POSIX malloc threshold = 10 | Parentheses nest limit = 250 | Default match limit = 10000000 | Default recursion depth limit = 10000000 | Match recursion uses stack | OK~/Downloads/R-devel
That is a front-end tool. I don't even have it installed :) | But ./configure gives me this: | | [snip] | checking for pcre.h... yes | checking pcre/pcre.h usability... no | checking pcre/pcre.h presence... no | checking for pcre/pcre.h... no | checking if PCRE version >= 8.20, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no | checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre >= | 8.20 library and headers are required | OK~/Downloads/R-devel | | can anyone advise? Ensure you have the corresponding -dev package. My system is now at the current Ubuntu 18.10, not the Ubuntu LTS 18.04 you have -- but I have been building R-devel on it about once every week or other week for years: edd@rob:~$ COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l libpcre*dev | cut -c-100 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===================-==============-==============-=========================================== ii libpcre3-dev:amd64 2:8.39-11 amd64 Old Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Li edd@rob:~$ Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
