[Rd] pcre problems

[Tomas Kalibera]

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.robin using gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:39 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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