Issue installing rtracklater with CURLINFO_FILETIME_T

[thecatsmilk]

I am currently attempting to install rtracklayer (R 4.4.1, Bioconductor 3.19). When installing, I am met with this error and can't seem to find a way to fix it:

In file included from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/curl/curl.h:2739:0,
                 from ucsc/net.c:7:
ucsc/net.c: In function ‘header_get_last_modified’:
ucsc/net.c:16:47: error: ‘CURLINFO_FILETIME_T’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘CURLINFO_FILETIME’?
     CURLcode status = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_FILETIME_T, &last_modified);
                                               ^
ucsc/net.c:16:47: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf:195: recipe for target 'ucsc/net.o' failed
make: *** [ucsc/net.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘rtracklayer’
* removing ‘/usr/lib/R/library/rtracklayer’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpyNzKvl/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making 'packages.html' ... done
Warning message:
In install.packages(...) :
  installation of package ‘rtracklayer’ had non-zero exit status

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[sanchit-saini]

Hi @thecatsmilk

It might be related to the issue #123 reported earlier, which was fixed with #126. I tried to replicate it using the Bioconductor Docker image of the 3.19 version but could not replicate it.

This error happens if the system is using an older version (older than 7.59.0) of libcurl. You could try to install rtracklayer after updating libcurl.

[thecatsmilk]

Hi @sanchit-saini

Thanks for your reply! I'm not sure how I missed those threads you linked above; thanks for sharing them.

I upgraded to libcurl=8.3.0 and the issue has been solved. Thank you so much! You helped me avoid a massive headache.

Dan