Sebastian Meyer
2015-Nov-20 15:14 UTC
[Rd] R-devel no longer supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (insufficient PCRE version)
Since yesterday's r69662, R no longer ./configure[s] on a standard Ubuntu 14.04.3 installation, which ships with PCRE 8.31 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/libpcre3-dev) I get:> checking if PCRE version >= 8.32, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no > checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre library and headers are requiredAre there any workarounds for this except for manually compiling and installing a more recent version of PCRE from source? Thanks! Sebastian -- University of Zurich Sebastian Meyer Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute (Department of Biostatistics) Hirschengraben 84 CH-8001 Z?rich Tel: +41 44 63-45485 Fax: +41 44 63-44386 www.biostat.uzh.ch sebastian.meyer at uzh.ch
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2015-Nov-20 15:49 UTC
[Rd] R-devel no longer supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (insufficient PCRE version)
On 20 November 2015 at 16:14, Sebastian Meyer wrote: | Since yesterday's r69662, R no longer ./configure[s] on a standard | Ubuntu 14.04.3 installation, which ships with PCRE 8.31 | (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/libpcre3-dev) | | I get: | | > checking if PCRE version >= 8.32, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no | > checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre library and headers are required | | Are there any workarounds for this except for manually compiling and | installing a more recent version of PCRE from source? The technical term is 'backport'. You could try and see if someone has taken the (Debian or Ubuntu) source package for pcre (current, ie >= 8.32) and created a package on launchpad.net in a PPA. Otherwise it is pretty easy to do yourself ... and if you just wait a little Michael will have to do it anyway to get R 3.3 built for 14.04. (I was just bitten yesterday by R 3.2.2 re-built for Ubuntu 12.04 [ as used by Travis ] not having libcurl capabilities. But that may well be a more involved library than pcre so I left it at that.) Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
Prof Brian Ripley
2015-Nov-20 21:39 UTC
[Rd] R-devel no longer supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (insufficient PCRE version)
I think you have it backwards: Ubuntu 14.04 does not support R-devel .... PCRE 8.32 is 3 years old, so Ubuntu 14.04 shipped an already quite old version 19 months ago. R has long said that its requirement was PCRE (version 8.10 or later, preferably 8.32 or later) and 8.32 is indeed preferable: the aim is that all the current PCRE regex syntax be usable on all platforms. Given that you appear to be installing R from the sources, PCRE is no more difficult to install from source .... R-devel is 'under development' and months off release: if this proves to be too restrictive we can postpone the aim to 3.4.x. On 20/11/2015 15:14, Sebastian Meyer wrote:> Since yesterday's r69662, R no longer ./configure[s] on a standard > Ubuntu 14.04.3 installation, which ships with PCRE 8.31 > (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/libpcre3-dev) > > I get: > >> checking if PCRE version >= 8.32, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no >> checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre library and headers are required > > Are there any workarounds for this except for manually compiling and > installing a more recent version of PCRE from source? > > Thanks! > > Sebastian > >-- 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
Paul Murrell
2015-Nov-23 00:44 UTC
[Rd] R-devel no longer supports Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (insufficient PCRE version)
For the record ... I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 too (probably until 16.04 comes out) Paul On 21/11/15 10:39, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> I think you have it backwards: Ubuntu 14.04 does not support R-devel .... > > PCRE 8.32 is 3 years old, so Ubuntu 14.04 shipped an already quite old > version 19 months ago. > > R has long said that its requirement was > > PCRE (version 8.10 or later, preferably 8.32 or later) > > and 8.32 is indeed preferable: the aim is that all the current PCRE > regex syntax be usable on all platforms. > > Given that you appear to be installing R from the sources, PCRE is no > more difficult to install from source .... > > R-devel is 'under development' and months off release: if this proves to > be too restrictive we can postpone the aim to 3.4.x. > > > On 20/11/2015 15:14, Sebastian Meyer wrote: >> Since yesterday's r69662, R no longer ./configure[s] on a standard >> Ubuntu 14.04.3 installation, which ships with PCRE 8.31 >> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/libpcre3-dev) >> >> I get: >> >>> checking if PCRE version >= 8.32, < 10.0 and has UTF-8 support... no >>> checking whether PCRE support suffices... configure: error: pcre >>> library and headers are required >> >> Are there any workarounds for this except for manually compiling and >> installing a more recent version of PCRE from source? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Sebastian >> >> > >-- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/