OK thanks Tomas, but I get
OK~ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base Reading package lists... Done E: Unable to find a source package for r-base OK~ hankin.ro...@gmail.com On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:47 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/1/19 7:10 AM, robin hankin wrote: > > thanks for this guys. > > > > I only compiled pcre myself as a last resort, because of the > > ./configure failure. But AFAICS apt-get reports correct > > installation: > > > > OK~/Downloads/R-devel sudo apt-get install r-base-dev > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > r-base-dev is already the newest version (3.5.2-1cosmic). > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > > OK~/Downloads/R-devel > > I would just run this > > apt-get build-dep r-base > > that will install all packages needed to _build_ r-base, so including PCRE. > > Best > Tomas > > > > > config.log gives me: > > > > configure:42208: $? = 0 > > configure:42208: result: yes > > configure:42208: checking for pcre.h > > configure:42208: result: yes > > configure:42208: checking pcre/pcre.h usability > > configure:42208: gcc -c -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include conftest.c >&5 > > conftest.c:289:10: fatal error: pcre/pcre.h: No such file or directory > > #include <pcre/pcre.h> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > compilation terminated. > > configure:42208: $? = 1 > > configure: failed program was: > > | /* confdefs.h */ > > | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" > > | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R" > > | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3 > > > > and > > > > HAVE_UNISTD_H > > | # include <unistd.h> > > | #endif > > | #include <pcre/pcre.h> > > configure:42208: result: no > > configure:42208: checking pcre/pcre.h presence > > configure:42208: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c > > conftest.c:256:10: fatal error: pcre/pcre.h: No such file or directory > > #include <pcre/pcre.h> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > compilation terminated. > > configure:42208: $? = 1 > > configure: failed program was: > > | /* confdefs.h */ > > | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" > > | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R" > > | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.6.0" > > | #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 3.6.0" > > | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPOR > > > > > > > > hankin.ro...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:39 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalib...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> On 2/25/19 6:25 AM, 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: > >> You can use > >> > >> apt-get build-dep r-base > >> > >> to install binary Ubuntu packages needed to build R from source, > >> including PCRE, so there should be no need to compile PCRE from source. > >> If you need for some special reason to compile PCRE from source, please > >> see R Admin Manual, section A.1 on how to configure PCRE. The manual > >> also says how to set compilation flags for R to look for headers in > >> other directories. Sometimes it helps to search the config.log when > >> configure fails. If still in trouble, please report how you built PCRE > >> and how you told R where to find it, and the relevant part of > >> config.log, to maximize chances people could offer useful advice. > >> > >> Best, > >> Tomas > >> > >>> 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> 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? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> hankin.ro...@gmail.com > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
