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

[Colin Rundel]

As I mentioned in the tweet, I was able to fix this on both a Fedora 23 and
Fedora 27 machine by making the following change to configure.ac:

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8ff72be..ab4c772 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ define([pkgversion], esyscmd([sh -c "grep Version:
DESCRIPTION | cut -d' ' -f2 |
 AC_INIT(rgdal, [pkgversion], Roger.Bivand using nhh.no)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/gdal-bindings.cpp)

+AC_PROG_CXX()
+
 # find R home and set correct compiler + flags
 : ${R_HOME=`R RHOME`}
 if test -z "${R_HOME}"; then

rerunning autoconf (also assuming m4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4 is added)
results in ./configure working for me. I don't have a deep enough
understanding of the vagaries of autoconf to know why exactly this is
necessary on redhat systems and why this fixes it but at least everything
seems to work.

-Colin

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 7:29 PM Thiago V. dos Santos via R-sig-Geo <
r-sig-geo using r-project.org> wrote:

> The following lines in your config.log:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/cc9pfZ1b.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against .rodata' can
> not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>
> make me wonder: maybe there is a -fPIC compilation flag lacking for you
> platform in the makefile?
>
> Greetings, -- Thiago V. dos Santos
> Postdoctoral Research FellowDepartment of Climate and Space Science and
> EngineeringUniversity of Michigan
>
>     On Friday, June 15, 2018, 3:27:44 PM EDT, 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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