R devel - Feb 2016 - configure statement for R-devel with updated zlib in user account

I'm aware R-devel no longer includes zlib. This works find on
up-to-date Linux systems.

On the older Centos 6 cluster at KU, they have zlib tool old for
R-devel. The R-devel configure fails thus:

checking if zlib version >= 1.2.5... no
checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib
library and headers are required

In other software, I've seen this kind of thing, so I installed zlib
1.2.8 into $HOME/packages and I can verify that the right pieces are
installed there.

Now I need you to tell me how to tell R to use that. Guesses so far:

$ export PATH=$HOME/packages/bin:$PATH
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/packages/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

What R's configure statement needs to find zlib in my user account?

In R-devel, the ./configure --help doesn't give me a simple-enough
explanation of what I'm supposed to do. I thought I had a solution by
adding this

--with-libpth-prefix=$HOME/packages

but still rejection, new zlib not found.

-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science        Director
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
http://pj.freefaculty.org              http://crmda.ku.edu

Hi Paul,

This might be what you are looking for.
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-April/070951.html

Jesper

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm aware R-devel no longer includes zlib. This works find on
> up-to-date Linux systems.
>
> On the older Centos 6 cluster at KU, they have zlib tool old for
> R-devel. The R-devel configure fails thus:
>
> checking if zlib version >= 1.2.5... no
> checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib
> library and headers are required
>
> In other software, I've seen this kind of thing, so I installed zlib
> 1.2.8 into $HOME/packages and I can verify that the right pieces are
> installed there.
>
> Now I need you to tell me how to tell R to use that. Guesses so far:
>
> $ export PATH=$HOME/packages/bin:$PATH
> $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/packages/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> What R's configure statement needs to find zlib in my user account?
>
> In R-devel, the ./configure --help doesn't give me a simple-enough
> explanation of what I'm supposed to do. I thought I had a solution by
> adding this
>
> --with-libpth-prefix=$HOME/packages
>
> but still rejection, new zlib not found.
>
> --
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science        Director
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
> University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
> http://pj.freefaculty.org              http://crmda.ku.edu
>
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>
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Jesper G?din <jesper.gadin at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> This might be what you are looking for.
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-April/070951.html
>
> Jesper
>
Thanks to help form Wes Mason at KU and Jesper Gadin in r-devel, I
compiled R-devel on RHEL 6.

R-devel requires install of newer gzip, bzip2, xz, pcre, and curl.
Compiles of bzip2 and pcre require a slightly greater-than-usual
amount of attention to detail.  I wrote it all out:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/blog/?p=315 "Building R-devel on RedHat Linux
6"

Regards

pj
-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science        Director
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
http://pj.freefaculty.org              http://crmda.ku.edu