[R] Trouble building R 3.5.0 under Ubuntu 18.04

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

I suspect the main difficulty the OP is having is building R with shlib 
support.

Steve, can you build from source without the --enable-R-shlib flag on 
configure?

Kevin

On 05/23/2018 01:58 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 6:47 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).
> 
> This is the wrong list, see R-sig-debian. That said,
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get build-dep r-base
> wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.5.0.tar.gz
> tar -xvf R-3.5.0.tar.gz
> cd R-3.5.0
> ./configure
> make
> ./bin/R
> 
> works for me.
> 
> --Ista
>   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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Kevin E. Thorpe
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Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
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