R devel - Nov 2019 - Can't build R 3.6.1 or 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Hi,

Yes I am aware of it.

And yes, I have libicu60 installed. Is it the configure script making a 
mistake?

Best,

Saren

On 11/22/19 4:12 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 2:58 PM Saren Tasciyan <saren.tasciyan at
ist.ac.at> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to build a more recent version (3.6.1 or 3.5.3) of R on
>> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
> Are you aware you can get up-to-date binaries either from PPA or CRAN:
>
>    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter
>    sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
>
>> and I ran ./configure
>> During "make", I get the following error:
>> platform.o: In function `do_eSoftVersion':
>> /home/user/Desktop/R-3.6.1/src/main/platform.c:3129: undefined
reference
>> to `u_getVersion_58'
> Such linking errors indicate you are not linking against the correct
> library that you compiled against. In this case, there seems to be a
> version conflict because you compiled against version 58 of ICU, but
> Ubuntu Bionic actually has ICU60:
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libicu-dev
>
> So the question is how do you end up with ICU58 headers? I am guessing
> your either installed a custom libicu in /usr/local/, or you upgraded
> from an older version of ubuntu but haven't upgraded libicu-dev.
> Either way the solution is to clean up your system and make sure there
> is only one version of libicu.

On 24 November 2019 at 22:24, Saren Tasciyan wrote:
| Yes I am aware of it.

So why not use them?
 
| And yes, I have libicu60 installed. Is it the configure script making a 
| mistake?

Err, no. The configure setup is as solid as they come.  But as Peter already
said: "have lib$FOO installed" often means having the _run-time_
library.
Yet to _build_, you also need the -dev package.

You could subscribe to the r-sig-debian list and we can walk you through all
of this there.  It is a pretty friendly low-volume low-noise list. This list
is not the best place for your questions.

Dirk

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

On 11/25/19 5:54 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 24 November 2019 at 22:24, Saren Tasciyan wrote:
> | Yes I am aware of it.
>
> So why not use them?
I did at the end. But one might be maybe paranoid, maybe develop R, 
maybe this is what open source means
>   
> | And yes, I have libicu60 installed. Is it the configure script making a
> | mistake?
>
> Err, no. The configure setup is as solid as they come.  But as Peter
already
> said: "have lib$FOO installed" often means having the _run-time_
library.
> Yet to _build_, you also need the -dev package.
>
> You could subscribe to the r-sig-debian list and we can walk you through
all
> of this there.  It is a pretty friendly low-volume low-noise list. This
list
> is not the best place for your questions.
Sure thanks a lot. I will join there. Actually, problem was with ggpubr, 
which required a more recent version of R. Then I thought compiling was 
the only option and got into this mess. Finally, I found binaries from 
CRAN. But I wanted to report the issue to help with
development.
>
> Dirk
>