Hi All: I still use fedora 17 ( heard about fedup so plan on trying it soon
) and the only way
to currently obtain a recent version of R when you're on 17 is to build it
from source.
( if anyone knows another way, let me know. ).

So, I was able to do that initially. But then I tried to run Rstudio and it
complained about
the lack of a shared library.

So, I went back to do it over and first I did ../configure --enable-R-shlib

That seemed to work okay. But then, when I did make, I got below. Maybe I
need to
do the make with options also. But, if so, I couldn't figure out where to
look for them. Thanks.

# part where I got the error when running make
#======================================
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -fopenmp -L/usr/local/lib64  -o libR.so
CommandLineArgs.o Rdynload.o Renviron.o RNG.o agrep.o apply.o arithmetic.o
array.o attrib.o bind.o builtin.o character.o coerce.o colors.o complex.o
connections.o context.o cum.o dcf.o datetime.o debug.o deparse.o devices.o
dotcode.o dounzip.o dstruct.o duplicate.o edit.o engine.o envir.o errors.o
eval.o format.o gevents.o gramest).o gram-ex.o graphics.o grep.o
identical.o inlined.o inspect.o internet.o iosupport.o lapack.o list.o
localecharset.o logic.o main.o mapply.o match.o memory.o names.o objects.o
options.o paste.o platform.o plot.o plot3d.o plotmath.o print.o
printarray.o printvector.o printutils.o qsort.o random.o raw.o
registration.o relop.o rlocale.o saveload.o scan.o seq.o serialize.o sort.o
source.o split.o sprintf.o startup.o subassign.o subscript.o subset.o
summary.o sysutils.o unique.o util.o version.o vfonts.o xxxpr.o   `ls
../unix/*.o ../appl/*.o ../nmath/*.o` ../extra/zlib/libz.a
../extra/bzip2/libbz2.a ../extra/pcre/libpcre.a ../extra/tre/libtre.a
-L../../lib -lRblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath   -lreadline  -llzma -lrt
-ldl -lm -licuuc -licui18n
/bin/ld: CommandLineArgs.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1'
can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

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