[Rd] R-devel no longer supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (insufficient PCRE version)

[Paul Murrell]

For the record ...

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 too (probably until 16.04 comes out)

Paul

On 21/11/15 10:39, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> I think you have it backwards: Ubuntu 14.04 does not support R-devel ....
>
> PCRE 8.32 is 3 years old, so Ubuntu 14.04 shipped an already quite old
> version 19 months ago.
>
> R has long said that its requirement was
>
>     PCRE (version 8.10 or later, preferably 8.32 or later)
>
> and 8.32 is indeed preferable: the aim is that all the current PCRE
> regex syntax be usable on all platforms.
>
> Given that you appear to be installing R from the sources, PCRE is no
> more difficult to install from source ....
>
> R-devel is 'under development' and months off release: if this proves to
> be too restrictive we can postpone the aim to 3.4.x.
>
>
> On 20/11/2015 15:14, Sebastian Meyer wrote:
>> Since yesterday's r69662, R no longer ./configure[s] on a standard
>> Ubuntu 14.04.3 installation, which ships with PCRE 8.31
>> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/libpcre3-dev)
>>
>> I get:
>>
>>> checking if PCRE version >= 8.32, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no
>>> checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre
>>> library and headers are required
>>
>> Are there any workarounds for this except for manually compiling and
>> installing a more recent version of PCRE from source?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>     Sebastian
>>
>>
>
>

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