zlib/bz2 library and headers are requried for compiling R
Solution 1
After looking at the parts of configure
script checking the library versions, it seems that it compares versions with strcmp
or strncmp
. Since "1.2.11" is lexicographically smaller that "1.2.6" it return a non-zero value indicating that the match failed. Besides, it just compares the first 5 characters which is also not what it is intented. So, it's a bug in configure script. Changing the script fixed the issue.
For zlib, find this line:
exit(strncmp(ZLIB_VERSION, "1.2.5", 5) < 0);
Change it to:
exit(ZLIB_VERNUM < 0x1250);
Solution 2
I had some issues installing R myself, specifically with the error
checking for BZ2_bzlibVersion in -lbz2... no
I had to install libbz2-dev
to get that error to go away.
Unfortunately, I came across a few more issues while running ./configure
and had to do a little more digging to find out how to solve it.
After reading that, I had realized I had to install a couple packages like libcurl4-openssl-dev
, libpcre3
, and liblzma-dev
to finally finish the configuration.
The cited link suggested
At this stage you could have as well tried to install R 3.2.0RC ... R-devel has not yet diverged much.
Personally, I think that installing an older version to resolve dependency issues reeks of laziness, but that's just my two cents.
Comments
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cartoonist almost 2 years
Trying to compile R-3.3.2 on Debian Jessie, all dependencies are installed. However the
./configure
script complains about thezlib
/bzip2
library versions not matching with the minimum requirement.Minimum version required:
zlib
: 1.2.6 (installed version: 1.2.11)bzip2
: 1.0.6 (installed version: 1.0.6)
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Haozhe Xie about 7 years
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cartoonist about 7 years@HaozheXie I think, it should be a bug report rather than an answer in SO.
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Mian Asbat Ahmad about 6 yearsThis is already commented out and I am still getting the bug.