Dear All, zlib has been removed from R-devel src/extra recently, and building R requires zlib >= 1.2.5. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (also used on Travis CI) only has 1.2.3. This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubuntu 12.04. (Unless I am missing something of course.) Which is probably fine, it is almost three years old now. I guess R-core is aware of this. Just wanted to be sure. Best Regads, Gabor [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 26/03/2015 14:47, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote:> Dear All, > > zlib has been removed from R-devel src/extra recently, and building R > requires zlib >= 1.2.5. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (also used on Travis CI) only has > 1.2.3.Hmm, 1.2.3 is from July 2005, 1.2.5 from July 2010.> This means that the next version of R will probably not available on UbuntuThe 'next version of R' will be 3.2.0, and the pre-3.2.0 sources include zlib.> 12.04. (Unless I am missing something of course.) Which is probably fine, > it is almost three years old now. > > I guess R-core is aware of this. Just wanted to be sure.Yes, although nothing stops you installing zlib >= 1.2.5 from sources. The minimal required versions of bzip2, pcre, zlib are all from 2010, and of liblzma from 2011. Whereas R-devel will not be released (as 3.3.x) until 2016.> > Best Regads, > Gabor >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: [...]> > This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubuntu >> > > The 'next version of R' will be 3.2.0, and the pre-3.2.0 sources include > zlib.My bad, sorry about that. I thought R-devel (trunk) will be released next, obviously not.> Whereas R-devel will not be released (as 3.3.x) until 2016. >Great, I just hope that Travis will upgrade before that. Although the end of life of 12.04 is April 2017. Thanks, Gabor [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 26 March 2015 at 07:47, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote: | Dear All, | | zlib has been removed from R-devel src/extra recently, and building R | requires zlib >= 1.2.5. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (also used on Travis CI) only has | 1.2.3. | | This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubuntu | 12.04. (Unless I am missing something of course.) Which is probably fine, | it is almost three years old now. I think Michael Rutter (who (re-)builds for 12.04 and other Ubuntu releases when I update the Debian package) can create a local backport of zlib. I somewhat recently started to (entirely locally) build some "backports" via https://launchpad.net/~edd/+archive/ubuntu/misc solely so that Travis can use them as binary. It's good option to have. Dirk | I guess R-core is aware of this. Just wanted to be sure. | | Best Regads, | Gabor | | [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | | ______________________________________________ | R-devel at r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
Related to this question:
I have installed bzip2 1.0.6 by hand, but configure still fails. When I
look at config.log I get the following
configure:34150: /usr/bin/gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -g -O2 -march=amdfam10
-g -O2 -march=amdfam10 -L/usr/local/lib64 confte
st.c -lbz2 -lz -lrt -ldl -lm >&5
conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:250: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer
target type
conftest.c:251: warning: implicit declaration of function 'exit'
conftest.c:251: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function 'exit'
conftest.c:251: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strcmp'
for the program
| #ifdef HAVE_BZLIB_H
| #include <bzlib.h>
| #endif
| int main() {
| char *ver = BZ2_bzlibVersion();
| exit(strcmp(ver, "1.0.6") < 0);
| }
|
configure:34167: result: no
configure:34173: checking whether bzip2 support suffices
configure:34180: error: bzip2 library and headers are required
To me, it seems as if the test might be broken. I'll do some more
investigation, but thought I would report this. It works for libz which I
also had to install by hand.
Best,
Kasper
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> On 26 March 2015 at 07:47, G?bor Cs?rdi wrote:
> | Dear All,
> |
> | zlib has been removed from R-devel src/extra recently, and building R
> | requires zlib >= 1.2.5. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (also used on Travis CI) only
> has
> | 1.2.3.
> |
> | This means that the next version of R will probably not available on
> Ubuntu
> | 12.04. (Unless I am missing something of course.) Which is probably fine,
> | it is almost three years old now.
>
> I think Michael Rutter (who (re-)builds for 12.04 and other Ubuntu releases
> when I update the Debian package) can create a local backport of zlib.
>
> I somewhat recently started to (entirely locally) build some
"backports"
> via
> https://launchpad.net/~edd/+archive/ubuntu/misc solely so that Travis can
> use
> them as binary. It's good option to have.
>
> Dirk
>
> | I guess R-core is aware of this. Just wanted to be sure.
> |
> | Best Regads,
> | Gabor
> |
> | [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> |
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