[R] PCRE configure problem with R-4.0.0

[Patrick Connolly]

On Mon, 04-May-2020 at 11:03AM -0400, Ista Zahn wrote:

|> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:51 AM Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> wrote:
|> >
|> > First of all, you mentioned Linux Mint, so you might get better advice
|> > on R-SIG-Debian mailing list.
|> >
|> > On Mon, 4 May 2020 16:15:42 +1200
|> > Patrick Connolly <p_connolly using slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
|> >
|> > >There are quite a lot of packages in the repository for Linux Mint
|> > >17.2 with 'pcre' in the name and these are installed:
|> >
|> > >Apparantly the '3' doesn't indicate an updated '2' version
|> >
|> > The funny thing about libpcre3 is that it is the old PCRE1 version,
|> > third ABI-incompatible upgrade of it [*], and libpcre2 (available in
|> > current releases of Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Debian) is supposed to be
|> > the newer PCRE2.
|> >
|> > Linux Mint 17.2 is based on Ubuntu 14.04, which has been released in
|> > April 2014, while PCRE2 has been released in 2015.
|> 
|> Moreover, support for 17.2 ended over a year ago (according to
|> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint_version_history). I suggest
|> upgrading to a supported version.

Thanks for making that clear -- though I don't relish the hassle of
upgrading an OS.  I was quite happy with the features of Mint 17.x.

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