[R-sig-Geo] rgdal installation on Fedora 28

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Sarah Goslee wrote:

> If you read that whole thread, as far as I can tell it's a permissions
> error, possibly due to using an external drive.
>
> I can't see how it would apply to installing an R package from /tmp as
> root. Other compiled packages install correctly; rgdal is the only one
> giving me this error.
>
> Am I missing something in that thread?

I agree that it doesn't look like that. The main thread here, mostly OSX, 
was: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2018-June/026622.html, 
earlier https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2018-May/026591.html.

That was where the CXX11 test need came from. See also 
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/681, but I don't think it is that.

Can you unpack the source tarball, remove lines 41-47 from configure.ac, 
run autoconf to rebuild configure, and see whether removing the test 
helps? This is based on a number of off-list contacts.

Roger


>
> Sarah
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 4:31 PM Ista Zahn <istazahn using gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/360329/error-cannot-run-c-compiled-programs-if-you-meant-to-cross-compile-use-host
>> might help.
>>
>> --Ista
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 3:27 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee using gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I updated all of my linux computers to Fedora 28, and now can’t install
>> rgdal.
>>>
>>> I can install sf with no problems, so it doesn't appear to be an issue
>>> with GDAL or with proj.
>>>
>>> I checked with Roger Bivand, the package maintainer, who asked me to
>>> confirm whether I could install sf, to make sure it wasn’t a
>>> dependency issue, and to post the logs online, then ask on the
>>> R-sig-geo mailing list. I’m putting the full problem here, and the
>>> abbreviated version on the mailing list.
>>>
>>> I’d appreciate any thoughts: I rely very heavily on the incredibly
>>> useful rgdal package.
>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 3.5.0 (2018-04-23)
>>> Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>> Running under: Fedora 28 (Workstation Edition)
>>>
>>> Matrix products: default
>>> BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
>>>
>>> locale:
>>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>>  [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_3.5.0 tools_3.5.0</code>
>>>
>>>
>>> The install message is:
>>>
>>> installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
>>> ** package ‘rgdal’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>>> configure: CC: gcc -m64
>>> configure: CXX: g++ -m64
>>> configure: rgdal: 1.3-2
>>> checking for /usr/bin/svnversion... no
>>> configure: svn revision: 755
>>> checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
>>> checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
>>> checking for suffix of executables...
>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in
>>> `/tmp/RtmpfMGBY5/R.INSTALL66c3b8deddb/rgdal':
>>> configure: error: cannot run C++ compiled programs.
>>> If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
>>> See `config.log' for more details
>>> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘rgdal’
>>> * removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/rgdal’
>>> * restoring previous ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/rgdal’
>>>
>>>
>>> The complete information and config.log are posted online at:
>>>
>>> http://numberwright.com/2018/06/stuck-on-rgdal/
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Or any other information that would be useful?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sarah Goslee
>>> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>>>
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>

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