[R-sig-Geo] rgdal compile confusion

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, Roger Bivand wrote:

> And the output of sessionInfo() - we don't know your platform. How was
> GDAL itself installed: from source or binary? Was that binary built on the
> same platform? Are there multiple GDAL installations on your system? If
> so, the configure step may see one version but install sees another.

Roger,

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: i586-slackware-linux-gnu (32-bit)
Running under: Slackware 14.2

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /usr/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=C
  [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

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.1 tools_3.5.1    tcltk_3.5.1

   gdal is built from source using the SlackBuiilds.org
<https://www.slackbuilds.org/> build script.

   gdal-2.3.1 is the only gdal package installed.

   With the upgraded (2.3.0 -> 2.3.1) gdal version installed fails the same
way in response to both update.packages() and install.packages('rgdal'):

> install.packages('rgdal')
trying URL 'https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/src/contrib/rgdal_1.3-4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1664774 bytes (1.6 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.6 MB

* 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: 2.3.1
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/RtmpfJQHZG/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

   What other information can I provide?

Regards,

Rich