R SIG Fedora - Jul 2016 - Compiling R-3.3.0 and/or R-3.3.1 with custom location for dependencies like zlib

Greetings.
Sorry I am a bit new to this list.
I am trying to compile R-3.3.0 and/or R-3.3.1 on computational cluster running
Centos 6.6
I have custom installation of zlib 1.2.8 , but it's not in default /lib
/usr/lib /usr/include location and configure script keeps failing when looking
for it.
It doesn't seem to care if correct zlib.h is in path and always seems to
find one in /usr/include

In the past we build R and put in nfs share that used by about 400 nodes to do
computation.
This is first time we having issue with compilation process. zlib dependencies
right now are on the same share.

Is there any way to point configure script to the right location for the
prerequisite?
So far I see people mostly end up using package system, that might not so well
for our environment.


Sincerely yours Fedor


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On 07/05/2016 12:52 PM, Syagin, Fedor wrote:
> Greetings.
> Sorry I am a bit new to this list.
> I am trying to compile R-3.3.0 and/or R-3.3.1 on computational cluster
running Centos 6.6
> I have custom installation of zlib 1.2.8 , but it's not in default /lib
/usr/lib /usr/include location and configure script keeps failing when looking
for it.
> It doesn't seem to care if correct zlib.h is in path and always seems
to find one in /usr/include
> 
> In the past we build R and put in nfs share that used by about 400 nodes to
do computation.
> This is first time we having issue with compilation process. zlib
dependencies right now are on the same share.
> 
> Is there any way to point configure script to the right location for the
prerequisite?
> So far I see people mostly end up using package system, that might not so
well for our environment.
Not a good way. Why can't you use the EPEL package?

~tom

=Red Hat

I would still have to use custom locations.
I need to make sure we have access to multiple R versions. (So people still have
access to old versions if they need them) so
need to be  very careful about not affecting current environment.

Sincerely yours Fedor Syagin

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Callaway [mailto:tcallawa at redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 1:10 PM
To: Syagin, Fedor <fs2307 at cumc.columbia.edu>; r-sig-fedora at
r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Fedora] Compiling R-3.3.0 and/or R-3.3.1 with custom
location for dependencies like zlib

On 07/05/2016 12:52 PM, Syagin, Fedor wrote:
> Greetings.
> Sorry I am a bit new to this list.
> I am trying to compile R-3.3.0 and/or R-3.3.1 on computational cluster 
> running Centos 6.6 I have custom installation of zlib 1.2.8 , but it's
not in default /lib /usr/lib /usr/include location and configure script keeps
failing when looking for it.
> It doesn't seem to care if correct zlib.h is in path and always seems 
> to find one in /usr/include
> 
> In the past we build R and put in nfs share that used by about 400 nodes to
do computation.
> This is first time we having issue with compilation process. zlib
dependencies right now are on the same share.
> 
> Is there any way to point configure script to the right location for the
prerequisite?
> So far I see people mostly end up using package system, that might not so
well for our environment.
Not a good way. Why can't you use the EPEL package?

~tom

=Red Hat