Re: [Rd] Installation using iconv from glibc

2015-05-16 Thread Smith, Virgil
> > 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 i

Re: [Rd] Installation using iconv from glibc

2015-05-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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 actua

[Rd] Installation using iconv from glibc

2015-05-14 Thread Smith, Virgil
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 essen