[R] R Compile From Source Issue RHEL 6.5

[Jeff Newmiller]

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On October 4, 2016 11:27:07 AM PDT, "Barros, Chris" <cbarros at hbs.edu> wrote:
>Hi-
>
>I’m compiling R from source and running into an issue when enabling
>--enable-R-shlib. I get the following below. I did try and add “-fPIC"
>to the bzip2 makefile with no luck.
>
>/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/lib/libbz2.a(bzlib.o):
>relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.text' can not be used when making a
>shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>
>/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/lib/libbz2.a: could not read symbols:
>Bad value
>
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>
>
>
>apps/R/3.3.1/library/include/  -c g_cntrlify.c -o g_cntrlify.o
>
>gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../src/extra  -I. -I../../src/include
>-I../../src/include  -I/usr/local/include -I../../src/nmath
>-DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -fopenmp -fpic 
>-I/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/include/
>-I/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/include/  -c g_fontdb.c -o g_fontdb.o
>
>gcc -std=gnu99 -I../../src/extra  -I. -I../../src/include
>-I../../src/include  -I/usr/local/include -I../../src/nmath
>-DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -fopenmp -fpic 
>-I/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/include/
>-I/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/include/  -c g_her_glyph.c -o
>g_her_glyph.o
>
>gfortran  -fopenmp -fpic  -g -O2  -c xxxpr.f -o xxxpr.o
>
>gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -fopenmp -L/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/lib 
>-o libR.so CommandLineArgs.o Rdynload.o Renviron.o RNG.o agrep.o
>apply.o arithmetic.o array.o attrib.o bind.o builtin.o character.o
>coerce.o colors.o complex.o connections.o context.o cum.o dcf.o
>datetime.o debug.o deparse.o devices.o dotcode.o dounzip.o dstruct.o
>duplicate.o edit.o engine.o envir.o errors.o eval.o format.o gevents.o
>gram.o gram-ex.o graphics.o grep.o identical.o inlined.o inspect.o
>internet.o iosupport.o lapack.o list.o localecharset.o logic.o main.o
>mapply.o match.o memory.o names.o objects.o options.o paste.o
>platform.o plot.o plot3d.o plotmath.o print.o printarray.o
>printvector.o printutils.o qsort.o radixsort.o random.o raw.o
>registration.o relop.o rlocale.o saveload.o scan.o seq.o serialize.o
>sort.o source.o split.o sprintf.o startup.o subassign.o subscript.o
>subset.o summary.o sysutils.o times.o unique.o util.o version.o
>g_alab_her.o g_cntrlify.o g_fontdb.o g_her_glyph.o xxxpr.o   `ls
>../unix/*.o ../appl/*.o ../nmath/*.o` ../extra/tre/libtre.a   
>-L../../lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm   -lreadline  -lpcre -llzma -lbz2
>-lz -lrt -ldl -lm
>
>/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/lib/libbz2.a(bzlib.o):
>relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.text' can not be used when making a
>shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>
>/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/library/lib/libbz2.a: could not read symbols:
>Bad value
>
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>make[3]: *** [libR.so] Error 1
>
>make[3]: Leaving directory
>`/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/R-3.3.1-source/src/main'
>
>make[2]: *** [R] Error 2
>
>make[2]: Leaving directory
>`/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/R-3.3.1-source/src/main'
>
>make[1]: *** [R] Error 1
>
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/apps/R/3.3.1/R-3.3.1-source/src'
>
>make: *** [R] Error 1
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Christopher Barros | Sr. Systems Engineer| Information Technology Group
>| Harvard Business School| 617.496.5180<tel:617.496.5180>|
>cbarros at hbs.edu<mailto:cbarros at hbs.edu>
>
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