astaines
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Apr 2004
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Location: Ireland
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 Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:14 pm Post subject: ec.h not found error in dev-lang/R [SOLVED] |
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Hi,
I recently tried to add the rvest package to my R installation. This in turn requires the R openssl package to be added. This failed with the following error :-
I took me a while to find the source of the error, so I'll put what I found here.
ec.h is the piece of openssl that does elliptic curve cryptography.
In Gentoo this piece is not complied in the default dev-libs/openssl-1.0.2f configuration, for patent reasons. Specifically the USE flag
is set, and this switches off the elliptic curve functions, so there is no ec.h for the R package opensll (See https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openssl/index.html ) to find.
To fix this, I added the line
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dev-libs/openssl -bindist
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to /etc/portage/package.use/manual.
Re-emerging threw up two further error messages, as both net-misc/openssh and dev-qt/qtnetwork depended on having a version of openssl with the bindist use flag set. Adding the lines
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net-misc/openssh -bindist
dev-qt/qtnetwork -bindist
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to /etc/portage/package.use/manual fixed those promptly. R happily installed the necessary packages.
Regards,
Anthony Staines |
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