I would love to hear from anyone who has successfully built 3.5.0 under Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver). My attempts have failed, including:
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -fPIC" export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -fPIC" export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC" ./configure --enable-R-shlib --prefix=/usr/lib/R/3.5.0 #### Configure completes normally without errors or warnings make #### make fails, always with lines like: /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dtrsl.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: attrib.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `R_NilValue' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:177: recipe for target 'libR.so' failed make[3]: *** [libR.so] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/src/R/R-3.5.0/src/main' Makefile:135: recipe for target 'R' failed How does one set the -fPIC flag? I have never had trouble compiling under Mint, which is based on Ubuntu. Thanks! Steve ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.