Hi Martyn, Thanks for the tip, that was the problem. I had the wrong libcurl-devel installed.
Jim On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 4:37 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 16 Oct 2015, at 18:33 , Martyn Plummer <plumm...@iarc.fr> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 21:46 +1100, Jim Lemon wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I have been attempting to install R-devel to check updated packages for > >> CRAN. After reading the relevant section in R Installation and > >> Administration, searching and a lot of unsuccessful fiddling with > >> "configure", I thought I might as well ask. > >> > >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > >> Running under: Fedora 21 (Twenty One) > >> > >> locale: > >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > >> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >> > >> configure hits the wall when checking for libcurl. I installed libcurl > >> v7.37.0 and while it is recognized, I have not succeeded in getting it > to > >> find curl.h (it's in /usr/include/curl/curl.h). R Installation ahd > >> Administration seems to suggest that the path information should be put > in > >> MkRules.local. However, that file is nowhere to be found. Neither can I > >> find any variable in "configure" that specifies where to look for > curl.h. > >> > >> I'm sure that this is very simple, but if anyone can provide a method to > >> stop the: > >> > >> ... > >> checking curl/curl.h usability... no > >> checking curl/curl.h presence... no > >> checking for curl/curl.h... no > >> configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required > with > >> support for https > >> > >> error I would be most grateful. > > > > This may be a little bit off topic for this list, since it is not an > > issue with your package, but I'll try to answer anyway. > > Also, a generic piece of advice: configure doesn't always get its error > messages precisely right. Sometimes it is useful to go through the > config.log and see exactly what program failed to compile with what error > message. It's not that unusual to see an include file test program failing > due to wrong compiler flags or libraries. > > -pd > > > The header file /usr/include/curl/curl.h is provided by both the 32-bit > > and 64-bit versions of libcurl-devel. I can reproduce your error if I > > have libcurl-devel.i686 installed (which provides the header) but not > > libcurl-devel.x86_64 (which is needed to compile the 64-bit version of > > R). This gives me the following output: > > > > checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config > > checking libcurl version ... 7.37.0 > > Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path. > > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc' > > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > > No package 'libcurl' found > > checking curl/curl.h usability... no > > checking curl/curl.h presence... no > > checking for curl/curl.h... no > > configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required > > with support for https > > > > Martyn > > > >> Jim > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message and its attachments are strictly confidenti...{{dropped:8}} > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
