This has been fixed (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/NEWS.html):
CHANGES IN R 3.3.2 patched: INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE * The configure check for the zlib version is now robust to versions longer than 5 characters, including 1.2.10. in SVN r71889 (2017-01-03): https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/a0fe05ce9d0937ad2334bb370785cb22c71e592b /Henrik On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Justin Bedő <c...@cua0.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > Posting here as bugzilla is closed to registration. > The zlib version checking code does not handle double digits for the > patch version in the semantic versioning scheme. Consequently, a > ./configure fails when using a zlib version ≥ 1.5.10. I suggest > something like the following patch: > > --- a/m4/R.m4 > +++ b/m4/R.m4 > @@ -3116,7 +3116,7 @@ int main() { > #ifdef ZLIB_VERSION > /* Work around Debian bug: it uses 1.2.3.4 even though there was no such > version on the master site zlib.net */ > - exit(strncmp(ZLIB_VERSION, "1.2.5", 5) < 0); > + exit(strncmp(ZLIB_VERSION, "1.2.5", 5) < 0 && (strlen(ZLIB_VERSION) < 6 || > strncmp(ZLIB_VERSION, "1.2.10", 6) < 0)); > #else > exit(1); > #endif > > This could of course be improved to properly parse the string. > > Cheers, > > Justin > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
