[Rd] pcre problems

[robin hankin]

OK thanks Tomas, but I get


OK~ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base
Reading package lists... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for r-base
OK~


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On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:47 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/1/19 7:10 AM, robin hankin wrote:
> > thanks for this guys.
> >
> > I only compiled pcre myself as a last resort,  because of the
> > ./configure failure.  But AFAICS  apt-get reports correct
> > installation:
> >
> > OK~/Downloads/R-devel sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > r-base-dev is already the newest version (3.5.2-1cosmic).
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> > OK~/Downloads/R-devel
>
> I would just run this
>
> apt-get build-dep r-base
>
> that will install all packages needed to _build_ r-base, so including PCRE.
>
> Best
> Tomas
>
> >
> > config.log gives me:
> >
> > configure:42208: $? = 0
> > configure:42208: result: yes
> > configure:42208: checking for pcre.h
> > configure:42208: result: yes
> > configure:42208: checking pcre/pcre.h usability
> > configure:42208: gcc -c  -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include  conftest.c >&5
> > conftest.c:289:10: fatal error: pcre/pcre.h: No such file or directory
> >   #include <pcre/pcre.h>
> >            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > compilation terminated.
> > configure:42208: $? = 1
> > configure: failed program was:
> > | /* confdefs.h */
> > | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
> > | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R"
> > | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3
> >
> > and
> >
> > HAVE_UNISTD_H
> > | # include <unistd.h>
> > | #endif
> > | #include <pcre/pcre.h>
> > configure:42208: result: no
> > configure:42208: checking pcre/pcre.h presence
> > configure:42208: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include  conftest.c
> > conftest.c:256:10: fatal error: pcre/pcre.h: No such file or directory
> >   #include <pcre/pcre.h>
> >            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > compilation terminated.
> > configure:42208: $? = 1
> > configure: failed program was:
> > | /* confdefs.h */
> > | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
> > | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R"
> > | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.6.0"
> > | #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 3.6.0"
> > | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPOR
> >
> >
> >
> > hankin.robin using gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:39 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera using gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 2/25/19 6:25 AM, robin hankin wrote:
> >>> Hi there, ubuntu 18.04.2, trying to compile R-devel  3.6.0,  svn 76155.
> >>>
> >>> I am having difficulty compiling R. I think I have pcre installed correctly:
> >> You can use
> >>
> >> apt-get build-dep r-base
> >>
> >> to install binary Ubuntu packages needed to build R from source,
> >> including PCRE, so there should be no need to compile PCRE from source.
> >> If you need for some special reason to compile PCRE from source, please
> >> see R Admin Manual, section A.1 on how to configure PCRE. The manual
> >> also says how to set compilation flags for R to look for headers in
> >> other directories. Sometimes it helps to search the config.log when
> >> configure fails. If still in trouble, please report how you built PCRE
> >> and how you told R where to find it, and the relevant part of
> >> config.log, to maximize chances people could offer useful advice.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Tomas
> >>
> >>> OK~/Downloads/R-devel pcretest -C
> >>> PCRE version 8.41 2017-07-05
> >>> Compiled with
> >>>     8-bit support
> >>>     UTF-8 support
> >>>     No Unicode properties support
> >>>     No just-in-time compiler support
> >>>     Newline sequence is LF
> >>>     \R matches all Unicode newlines
> >>>     Internal link size = 2
> >>>     POSIX malloc threshold = 10
> >>>     Parentheses nest limit = 250
> >>>     Default match limit = 10000000
> >>>     Default recursion depth limit = 10000000
> >>>     Match recursion uses stack
> >>> OK~/Downloads/R-devel
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> But ./configure gives me this:
> >>>
> >>> [snip]
> >>> checking for pcre.h... yes
> >>> checking pcre/pcre.h usability... no
> >>> checking pcre/pcre.h presence... no
> >>> checking for pcre/pcre.h... no
> >>> checking if PCRE version >= 8.20, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no
> >>> checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre >=
> >>> 8.20 library and headers are required
> >>> OK~/Downloads/R-devel
> >>>
> >>> can anyone advise?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> hankin.robin using gmail.com
> >>>
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