[R-pkg-devel] R-devel installation and libcurl

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Martyn,
Thanks for the tip, that was the problem. I had the wrong libcurl-devel
installed.

Jim

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 4:37 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On 16 Oct 2015, at 18:33 , Martyn Plummer <plummerM at iarc.fr> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 21:46 +1100, Jim Lemon wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I have been attempting to install R-devel to check updated packages for
> >> CRAN. After reading the relevant section in R Installation and
> >> Administration, searching and a lot of unsuccessful fiddling with
> >> "configure", I thought I might as well ask.
> >>
> >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >> Running under: Fedora 21 (Twenty One)
> >>
> >> locale:
> >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> >> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> >> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >>
> >> configure hits the wall when checking for libcurl. I installed libcurl
> >> v7.37.0 and while it is recognized, I have not succeeded in getting it
> to
> >> find curl.h (it's in /usr/include/curl/curl.h). R Installation ahd
> >> Administration seems to suggest that the path information should be put
> in
> >> MkRules.local. However, that file is nowhere to be found. Neither can I
> >> find any variable in "configure" that specifies where to look for
> curl.h.
> >>
> >> I'm sure that this is very simple, but if anyone can provide a method to
> >> stop the:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> checking curl/curl.h usability... no
> >> checking curl/curl.h presence... no
> >> checking for curl/curl.h... no
> >> configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required
> with
> >> support for https
> >>
> >> error I would be most grateful.
> >
> > This may be a little bit off topic for this list, since it is not an
> > issue with your package, but I'll try to answer anyway.
>
> Also, a generic piece of advice: configure doesn't always get its error
> messages precisely right. Sometimes it is useful to go through the
> config.log and see exactly what program failed to compile with what error
> message. It's not that unusual to see an include file test program failing
> due to wrong compiler flags or libraries.
>
> -pd
>
> > The header file /usr/include/curl/curl.h is provided by both the 32-bit
> > and 64-bit versions of libcurl-devel. I can reproduce your error if I
> > have libcurl-devel.i686 installed (which provides the header) but not
> > libcurl-devel.x86_64 (which is needed to compile the 64-bit version of
> > R). This gives me the following output:
> >
> > checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config
> > checking libcurl version ... 7.37.0
> > Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc'
> > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> > No package 'libcurl' found
> > checking curl/curl.h usability... no
> > checking curl/curl.h presence... no
> > checking for curl/curl.h... no
> > configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required
> > with support for https
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> >> Jim
> >>
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