[R] Trouble building R 3.5.0 under Ubuntu 18.04

[Bert Gunter]

Seems O/T for this list, which is about R programming.

Have you tried an internet search on "Install R on ubuntu" or similar.

I found  this:
https://www.linode.com/docs/development/r/how-to-install-r-on-ubuntu-and-debian/

There are also r-sig-debian and r-sig-fedora mailing lists, in case that
might help.

Cheers,
Bert






Bert Gunter

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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Steve Gutreuter <sgutreuter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would love to hear from anyone who has successfully built 3.5.0 under
>  Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver).  My attempts have failed, including:
>
> export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -fPIC"
> export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -fPIC"
> export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC"
> ./configure --enable-R-shlib --prefix=/usr/lib/R/3.5.0
>
> #### Configure completes normally without errors or warnings
>
> make
>
> #### make fails, always with lines like:
> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dtrsl.o: relocation R_X86_64_32
> against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: attrib.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32
> against symbol `R_NilValue' can not be used when making a shared
> object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: Bad value
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Makefile:177: recipe for target 'libR.so' failed
> make[3]: *** [libR.so] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/src/R/R-3.5.0/src/main'
> Makefile:135: recipe for target 'R' failed
>
> How does one set the -fPIC flag?
>
> I have never had trouble compiling under Mint, which is based on
> Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks!
> Steve
>
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