[R-sig-Fedora] RHEL6.5 cluster system library and home library

[Martyn Plummer]

On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 14:41 +0000, Hamidi, Bashir wrote:
> System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
> 
> I’m working on a RHEL6.5 cluster with no EPEL or root access to
> install EPEL.

Can't you talk to your system administrator?

> I have installed zlib 1.2.11 (and other necessary libraries) in my
> home directory.
> Problem is the cluster has an older zlib library (1.2.4) and R does
> not accept that. How can I force configure to look in my
> home/[username]/packages/lib for zlib?
> 
> 
> [username at hpcc3 R-3.4.0]$ ./configure --
> prefix=/home/[username]/packages --with-x=no --with-readline=no --
> includedir=/home/[username]/packages/include
> –libdir=/home/[username]/packages/lib

Set environment variables:

CPPFLAGS=-I<includedir> \
LDFLAGS=-L<libdir> \
./configure

Martyn

> 
> 
> checking for inflateInit2_ in -lz... yes
> 
> checking zlib.h usability... yes
> 
> checking zlib.h presence... yes
> 
> checking for zlib.h... yes
> 
> checking if zlib version >= 1.2.5... no
> 
> checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib
> library and headers are required
> 
> 
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