Re: [Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

2015-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 31/03/2015 01:51, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote: For people reading this: I was installing bzip2 by hand. Two things to bear in mind (1) it only installs a shared library if you use a special But R does not require a shared library for bzip2 Makefile (this is clearly stated in the insta

Re: [Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

2015-03-30 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
For people reading this: I was installing bzip2 by hand. Two things to bear in mind (1) it only installs a shared library if you use a special Makefile (this is clearly stated in the installation docs) and (2) I had to symlink libbz2.so.1 to libbz2.so.1.0.6 (the included libbz2.so.1.0 was not bein

Re: [Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

2015-03-27 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Related to this question: I have installed bzip2 1.0.6 by hand, but configure still fails. When I look at config.log I get the following configure:34150: /usr/bin/gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g -O2 -march=amdfam10 -g -O2 -march=amdfam10 -L/usr/local/lib64 confte st.c -lbz2 -lz -lrt -ldl -lm >&

Re: [Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

2015-03-26 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 March 2015 at 07:47, Gábor Csárdi wrote: | Dear All, | | zlib has been removed from R-devel src/extra recently, and building R | requires zlib >= 1.2.5. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (also used on Travis CI) only has | 1.2.3. | | This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubun

Re: [Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

2015-03-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
> On Mar 26, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Prof Brian Ripley > wrote: > [...] >> >> This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubuntu >>> >> >> The 'next version of R' will be 3.2.0, and the pre-3.2.0 sources include >>

Re: [Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

2015-03-26 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...] > > This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubuntu >> > > The 'next version of R' will be 3.2.0, and the pre-3.2.0 sources include > zlib. My bad, sorry about that. I thought R-devel (trunk) will be rele

Re: [Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

2015-03-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 26/03/2015 14:47, Gábor Csárdi wrote: Dear All, zlib has been removed from R-devel src/extra recently, and building R requires zlib >= 1.2.5. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (also used on Travis CI) only has 1.2.3. Hmm, 1.2.3 is from July 2005, 1.2.5 from July 2010. This means that the next version of R