You do not need to compile R from source on RHEL 6. If you enable the EPEL repository then you can install the binary RPM via yum. See
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Tom Callaway, who maintains the Red Hat binaries of R, statically links up-to-date versions of bzip2, xz, pcre, and curl into R. Martyn PS The R-SIG-Fedora list is a more appropriate mailing list for this topic: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 14:19 +0000, Hamidi, Bashir wrote: > System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) > > I’ve installed zlib 1.2.11 on the home folder of a Red Hat HPC as > part of the process for installing R base 3.4.0. > > I get this error even after successful install of zlib > checking for inflateInit2_ in -lz... no > checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib > library and headers are required > > I’ve checked R documentation and configure file for the issue of R > requiring version newer than 1.2.6 but not lexicographically > recognizing 1.2.11 as >1.2.6, and that particular bug was patched in > 3.4. > > Any suggestion and/or input would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > > > Bashir > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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
