MRO 3.4.2/3.4.3 R binary was not built as a shared library

[mjmg]

rApache cannot be compiled with current MRO 3.4.2 release. It indicates "R was not built as a shared library" Is MRO 3.4.2 release compiled with "--enable-R-shlib" ?

checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for uname... /usr/bin/uname
checking for --with-apxs... no
checking for apxs... /usr/bin/apxs
checking for R... /usr/bin/R

R was not built as a shared library

Either build it with one, or use another install of R

configure: error: aborting! 

[DinoV]

This also blocks using rpy2 with MRO 3.4.2 as well. 3.4.1 and 3.4.0 both appear to be built with the shared library.

[Neil-Schneider]

I have had this similar error when using MRO3.4.2, but it seemed like it was due to the RHost interface.

In short,

• MRO from terminal did not produce the problem
• R through RHost did not produce the problem
• MRO through RHost produces the problem.

See my issue on Microsoft/RTVS#4223.

[alexvorobiev]

littler (http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html) also cannot be installed because of this issue.

[gliptak]

Rserve install also fails:

$ sudo R

R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30) -- "Kite-Eating Tree"
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Microsoft R Open 3.4.3
The enhanced R distribution from Microsoft
Microsoft packages Copyright (C) 2017 Microsoft Corporation

Using the Intel MKL for parallel mathematical computing (using 1 cores).

Default CRAN mirror snapshot taken on 2018-01-01.
See: https://mran.microsoft.com/.

> install.packages("Rserve")
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  397k  100  397k    0     0   420k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  420k
* installing *source* package ‘Rserve’ ...
** package ‘Rserve’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking whether to compile the server... yes
configure: error: R was configured without --enable-R-shlib or --enable-R-static-lib

*** Rserve requires R (shared or static) library.                       ***
*** Please install R library or compile R with either --enable-R-shlib  ***
*** or --enable-R-static-lib support                                    ***

 Alternatively use --without-server if you wish to build only Rserve client.

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘Rserve’
* removing ‘/opt/microsoft/ropen/3.4.3/lib64/R/library/Rserve’

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/RtmplT3Ipq/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making 'packages.html' ... done
Warning message:
In install.packages("Rserve") :
  installation of package ‘Rserve’ had non-zero exit status

[mjmg]

This issue still exists for MRO 3.4.3.

I'm smelling a conspiracy to deliberately disable building packages that enable networking capability/other software interoperability for MRO that could compete with enterprise Microsoft R Server features.

[richcalaway]

Actually, both MRO 3.4.2 and MRO 3.4.3 WERE built as shared libraries, but a missing line in the etc/Makeconf file caused packages such as littler and RcppArmadillow to believe they weren't. Changing the line "LIBR = " to "LIBR = -L$(R_HOME)/lib$(R_ARCH) -lR" (and deleting the various -l flags on the LIBS line) should allow you to build these packages. We will be sure to test the fix further in 3.4.4.

[nikolayvoronchikhin]

Thank you @richcalaway, the solution you provided helped with installing "RServe" on MRO 3.4.2