Bug 604794

Summary:	dev-lang/R-3.32 fails to config with zlib errors
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Harris Landgarten <harrisl>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Mathematics related packages <sci-mathematics>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	mjo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Harris Landgarten 2017-01-06 01:18:33 UTC

checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking X11/Intrinsic.h usability... yes
checking X11/Intrinsic.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Intrinsic.h... yes
checking for XtToolkitInitialize in -lXt... yes
using X11 ... yes
checking for KeySym... yes
checking X11/Xmu/Atoms.h usability... yes
checking X11/Xmu/Atoms.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Xmu/Atoms.h... yes
checking for XmuInternAtom in -lXmu... yes
checking whether pkg-config knows about cairo and pango... yes
checking whether cairo including pango is >= 1.2 and works... yes
checking for BSD networking... yes
checking rpc/types.h usability... yes
checking rpc/types.h presence... yes
checking for rpc/types.h... yes
checking for rpc/xdr.h... yes
checking for XDR support... yes
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
configure: error: zlib library and headers are required


note zlib-1.2.10 is installed.

Comment 1 O. William McClung 2017-01-07 17:46:58 UTC

I can confirm this bug.

Comment 2 Matthias Schwartz 2017-01-18 14:53:33 UTC

I can confirm this bug with R-3.3.1 with zlib 1.2.11 installed

Comment 3 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2020-04-17 23:26:10 UTC

This was fixed upstream:

CHANGES IN R 3.3.3:

  NEW FEATURES:

    • ...

  INSTALLATION on a UNIX-ALIKE:

    • The configure check for the zlib version is now robust to
      versions longer than 5 characters, including 1.2.11.