On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 21:46 +1100, Jim Lemon wrote: > Hi, > I have been attempting to install R-devel to check updated packages for > CRAN. After reading the relevant section in R Installation and > Administration, searching and a lot of unsuccessful fiddling with > "configure", I thought I might as well ask. > > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > Running under: Fedora 21 (Twenty One) > > 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 > > configure hits the wall when checking for libcurl. I installed libcurl > v7.37.0 and while it is recognized, I have not succeeded in getting it to > find curl.h (it's in /usr/include/curl/curl.h). R Installation ahd > Administration seems to suggest that the path information should be put in > MkRules.local. However, that file is nowhere to be found. Neither can I > find any variable in "configure" that specifies where to look for curl.h. > > I'm sure that this is very simple, but if anyone can provide a method to > stop the: > > ... > checking curl/curl.h usability... no > checking curl/curl.h presence... no > checking for curl/curl.h... no > configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required with > support for https > > error I would be most grateful.
This may be a little bit off topic for this list, since it is not an issue with your package, but I'll try to answer anyway. The header file /usr/include/curl/curl.h is provided by both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of libcurl-devel. I can reproduce your error if I have libcurl-devel.i686 installed (which provides the header) but not libcurl-devel.x86_64 (which is needed to compile the 64-bit version of R). This gives me the following output: checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config checking libcurl version ... 7.37.0 Package libcurl was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcurl.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'libcurl' found checking curl/curl.h usability... no checking curl/curl.h presence... no checking for curl/curl.h... no configure: error: libcurl >= 7.28.0 library and headers are required with support for https Martyn > Jim > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and its attachments are strictly confidenti...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
