R SIG Fedora - Jun 2017 - RHEL6.5 cluster system library and home library

System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

I?m working on a RHEL6.5 cluster with no EPEL or root access to install EPEL.

I have installed zlib 1.2.11 (and other necessary libraries) in my home
directory.
Problem is the cluster has an older zlib library (1.2.4) and R does not accept
that. How can I force configure to look in my home/[username]/packages/lib for
zlib?


[username at hpcc3 R-3.4.0]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/[username]/packages
--with-x=no --with-readline=no --includedir=/home/[username]/packages/include
?libdir=/home/[username]/packages/lib



checking for inflateInit2_ in -lz... yes

checking zlib.h usability... yes

checking zlib.h presence... yes

checking for zlib.h... yes

checking if zlib version >= 1.2.5... no

checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib library and
headers are required




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On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 14:41 +0000, Hamidi, Bashir wrote:
> System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
> 
> I?m working on a RHEL6.5 cluster with no EPEL or root access to
> install EPEL.
Can't you talk to your system administrator?
> I have installed zlib 1.2.11 (and other necessary libraries) in my
> home directory.
> Problem is the cluster has an older zlib library (1.2.4) and R does
> not accept that. How can I force configure to look in my
> home/[username]/packages/lib for zlib?
> 
> 
> [username at hpcc3 R-3.4.0]$ ./configure --
> prefix=/home/[username]/packages --with-x=no --with-readline=no --
> includedir=/home/[username]/packages/include
> ?libdir=/home/[username]/packages/lib
Set environment variables:

CPPFLAGS=-I<includedir> \
LDFLAGS=-L<libdir> \
./configure

Martyn
> 
> 
> checking for inflateInit2_ in -lz... yes
> 
> checking zlib.h usability... yes
> 
> checking zlib.h presence... yes
> 
> checking for zlib.h... yes
> 
> checking if zlib version >= 1.2.5... no
> 
> checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib
> library and headers are required
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Much thanks to Martyn. Setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS resolved my issue. 

System admin was messaged last week and this week and kindly asked for
assistance and cooperation. I have yet to hear back or see any changes.


On 6/23/17, 11:33 AM, "Martyn Plummer" <plummerm at iarc.fr>
wrote:

    
    
    On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 14:41 +0000, Hamidi, Bashir wrote:
    > System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)
    >
    > I?m working on a RHEL6.5 cluster with no EPEL or root access to
    > install EPEL.
    
    Can't you talk to your system administrator?
    
    > I have installed zlib 1.2.11 (and other necessary libraries) in my
    > home directory.
    > Problem is the cluster has an older zlib library (1.2.4) and R does
    > not accept that. How can I force configure to look in my
    > home/[username]/packages/lib for zlib?
    >
    >
    > [username at hpcc3 R-3.4.0]$ ./configure --
    > prefix=/home/[username]/packages --with-x=no --with-readline=no --
    > includedir=/home/[username]/packages/include
    > ?libdir=/home/[username]/packages/lib
    
    Set environment variables:
    
    CPPFLAGS=-I<includedir> \
    LDFLAGS=-L<libdir> \
    ./configure
    
    Martyn
    
    >
    >
    > checking for inflateInit2_ in -lz... yes
    >
    > checking zlib.h usability... yes
    >
    > checking zlib.h presence... yes
    >
    > checking for zlib.h... yes
    >
    > checking if zlib version >= 1.2.5... no
    >
    > checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib
    > library and headers are required
    >
    >
    >
    >
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