If you are having any trouble compiling R on RHEL or its derivatives, it is worth recalling that a binary distribution of R is provided through the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Install the appropriate epel-release RPM to enable the repository. Then you can install R via dnf as you would any other software package. Tom Callaway from Red Hat maintains the R rpms and he ensures that they still build and install on RHEL 5 and 6. Specifically, for zlib and other system libraries that are too old on these platforms, up-to-date versions are built and statically linked into R during the RPM build process. Having said that, if you need to install R from source on RHEL 5 or 6 then you need to specify the locations of the locally-installed libraries and headers. This is done at configure time via CFLAGS and LDFLAGS (See the R-admin manual, section B3.3), e.g. CFLAGS="-g -O2 -I/path/to/my/headers" \ LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/my/libs" \ ./configure If you do this then you do not need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime. Library locations specified via LDFLAGS are collated and automatically added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH (See R-admin, section B7). Martyn On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 14:41 +0000, Jones, Michael wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to compile R-3.3.3 or R-3.4.0 on a RHEL6 system that I've > prefixed the latest headers down a shared utility path, I've sourced > this path in LD_LIBRARY_LATH, R_LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and dropping the > headers down /src/include which appears to be the default > R_include_dir but it will not accept these any other place than > /usr/include. Is there a way to properly define a prefixed > includedir and libdir for R that I'm missing? I was able to do this > in 3.2.4-revised successfully. I see the comments that -with-system- > zlib is now default, but I see no options to override that. Can you > please point me in the correct direction? > > > Many thanks! > > > [[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
