[R-sig-Geo] rgdal compile confusion

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2018, Roger Bivand wrote:

> The gcc you have is ancient; I would guess that your GDAL was not built with 
> it.

Roger,

   On Slackware everything is built from source other than a few applications
that are repacked by the SlackBuild.org maintainers from .deb or .rpm
packages.

> What happens if you install GDAL from source? Very likely the decision in 
> GDAL to go with CXX11 was premature, but tardy platforms need forcing too 
> (typical problem on CentOS and RHEL too).

   Slackware stays back from the bleeding edge and upgrades slowly so the
distribution remains stable.

> Could you post on R-sig-geo - there may be someone there in your
> situation.

   Moved to the mail list with this response.

Thanks,

Rich

---------- Original message -----------
>>  Please share your thoughts on what might be going on here.
>> 
>> * installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
>> ** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> configure:  R_HOME: /usr/lib/R
>> configure:  CC: gcc
>> configure:  CXX: g++
>> configure:  C++11 support available
>> configure:  rgdal: 1.3-4
>> checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... yes
>> configure: svn revision: 766
>> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
>> checking gdal-config usability... yes
>> configure: GDAL: 2.3.0
>> checking C++11 support for GDAL >= 2.3.0... yes
>> checking GDAL version >= 1.11.4... yes
>> checking gdal: linking with --libs only... no
>> checking gdal: linking with --libs and --dep-libs... no
>> In file included from /usr/include/gdal.h:45:0,
>>                 from gdal_test.cc:1:
>> /usr/include/cpl_port.h:187:6: error: #error Must have C++11 or newer.
>> #    error Must have C++11 or newer.
>>      ^
>> In file included from /usr/include/gdal.h:49:0,
>>                 from gdal_test.cc:1:
>> /usr/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected template-name before '<' 
>> token
>> class CPLXMLTreeCloser: public std::unique_ptr<CPLXMLNode, 
>> CPLXMLTreeCloserDeleter>
>>                                               ^
>> /usr/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected '{' before '<' token
>> /usr/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected unqualified-id before 
>> '<' token
>> In file included from /usr/include/ogr_api.h:45:0,
>>                  from /usr/include/gdal.h:50,
>>                  from gdal_test.cc:1:
>> /usr/include/ogr_core.h:79:28: error: expected '}' before end of line
>> /usr/include/ogr_core.h:79:28: error: expected declaration before end of 
>> line
>> In file included from /usr/include/gdal.h:45:0,
>>                 from gdal_test.cc:1:
>> /usr/include/cpl_port.h:187:6: error: #error Must have C++11 or newer.
>> #    error Must have C++11 or newer.
>>      ^
>> In file included from /usr/include/gdal.h:49:0,
>>                 from gdal_test.cc:1:
>> /usr/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected template-name before '<' 
>> token
>> class CPLXMLTreeCloser: public std::unique_ptr<CPLXMLNode, 
>> CPLXMLTreeCloserDeleter>
>>                                               ^
>> /usr/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected '{' before '<' token
>> /usr/include/cpl_minixml.h:202:47: error: expected unqualified-id before 
>> '<' token
>> In file included from /usr/include/ogr_api.h:45:0,
>>                  from /usr/include/gdal.h:50,
>>                  from gdal_test.cc:1:
>> /usr/include/ogr_core.h:79:28: error: expected '}' before end of line
>> /usr/include/ogr_core.h:79:28: error: expected declaration before end of 
>> line
>> configure:  Install failure: compilation and/or linkage problems.
>> configure:  error: GDALAllRegister not found in libgdal.
>> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
>> * removing ‘/usr/lib/R/library/rgdal’
>> * restoring previous ‘/usr/lib/R/library/rgdal’
>> 
>> The downloaded source packages are in
>> 	‘/tmp/RtmpVGIz3Q/downloaded_packages’
>> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
>> Making 'packages.html' ... done
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("rgdal") :
>>   installation of package ‘rgdal’ had non-zero exit status
>>
>>  Installed here are:
>> gcc-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2
>> gcc-g++-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2
>> gcc-gfortran-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2
>> gcc-gnat-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2
>> gcc-go-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2
>> gcc-java-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2
>> gcc-objc-5.5.0-i586-1_slack14.2
>> gccmakedep-1.0.3-noarch-1
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> gdal-2.3.0-i586-1_SBo
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Rich