[R-pkg-devel] Current recommendations re. GitHub Action?

[Ivan Krylov]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 19:18:33 -0600
Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org> wrote:

> 	  However, Ubuntu failed with devel and oldrel1, complaining,
> "there is no package called ‘rcmdcheck’".

If we start from the error message and work backwards, it's easy to see
that `rcmdcheck` fails to install because it depends on `curl`, which
also fails to install. `curl` fails to install because the virtual
machine running the GitHub Action doesn't have libcurl headers
installed; there's even an error message about that, but it's not fatal:

------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because libcurl was not found. Try installing:
 * deb: libcurl4-openssl-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
 * rpm: libcurl-devel (Fedora, CentOS, RHEL)
If libcurl is already installed, check that 'pkg-config' is in your
PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a libcurl.pc file. If pkg-config
is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:
R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
--------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't have enough experience in the abstraction layers involved, but
if you stuff a `sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev` (which should
run as a system command line, just like the "Install system
dependencies" step) somewhere before the "Install dependencies" step,
it should work.

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Best regards,
Ivan