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--- guide:compiling_r [2011/12/07 15:33]
hamish [Configure]
+++ guide:compiling_r [2021/12/09 16:42] (current)
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 ====== Installing R 2.14 from Source ======
-This guide is written fun the Sun Tsessbe Cluster, login node. Its recommended that you make you use of temporary or scratch directory to do all the compilation in (i.e. ~/scratch or /tmp/$USER), as to save disk space in your home directory.
+This guide is written fun the Sun Tsessbe Cluster, login node. Its recommended that you make you use of temporary or scratch directory to do all the compilation in (i.e. ~/scratch or /tmp/$USER), as to save disk space in your home directory. Note that for this guide, all binary and libraries are installed home directory, i.e prefix=$HOME.
-Also note that for this guide, all binary and libraries are installed home directory, i.e prefix=$HOME. Add the following lines to the end of your .bashrc file
+If you dont have GCC installed in your home directory, Add the following lines to the end of your .bashrc file
   export PATH=/opt/gridware/gcc-4.3/bin:$PATH
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gridware/gcc-4.3/lib64/:/opt/gridware/gcc-4.3/lib/:$HOME/lib
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 ===== Configure =====
+For a bare-bones installation
   $ mkdir BUILD
   $ cd BUILD
-  $ ../configure --prefix=$HOME
+  $ ../configure --prefix=$HOME --without-system-zlib --without-system-xz --without-cairo --without-libpng --without-jpeglib --disable-openmp --disable-largefile --disable-nls
+===== Build / Make =====
+  $ make
+if the process is interrupted, try make again to so if the error persists.
+===== Check =====
+  $make check
+===== Install =====
+  $ make install
+restore you .bashrc file
+For you jobs to run on the worker nodes, you may need to copy some shared libraries to your lib directory
+  $ cd $HOME/lib
+  $ cp /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2 ./

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