Sf: Compiling on local cluster fails: Must have C++11 or newer.

[adrfantini]

I am trying to compile sf from CRAN on our local linux cluster, but I can't get it to work.
We have GDAL 2.3.0 and R (3.5.1) is compiled with intel's ICPC (2017).

ThIs is the output of install.packages(sf).
The first error seems to be this:

/opt-ictp/R/gdal-2.3.0/include/cpl_port.h(187): error: #error directive: Must have C++11 or newer.

Thus I have tried to compile with:

1. install.packages("sf", configure.args="CFLAGS='-std=c++11'")
2. install.packages("sf", configure.args="CXXFLAGS='-std=c++11'")
3. install.packages("sf", configure.vars="CFLAGS='-std=c++11'")
4. install.packages("sf", configure.vars="CXXFLAGS='-std=c++11'")
5. install.packages("sf", configure.args="CXX1XSTD='-std=c++11'")
6. install.packages("sf", configure.vars="CXX1XSTD='-std=c++11'")
7. install.packages("sf", configure.args="CXX1XSTD='c++11'")
8. install.packages("sf", configure.vars="CXX1XSTD='c++11'")

The error persists.
As you can see this was pretty much trial and error - I really don't know anything about this.

This is the output of cat $(R RHOME)/etc/Makeconf.

Any idea on how to fix this?

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /opt-ictp/R/3.5.1/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /opt-ictp/R/3.5.1/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.1 tools_3.5.1

[edzer]

Since gdal 2.3.0 got installed, which required c++11, somebody must have figured out how to configure the compiler to get this done. Find that person, and use the compiler flags used for that.

[adrfantini]

Might be related to the problems reported in #726.

[matteodefelice]

I had the same issue on my CentOS machine, I had to install GDAL 2.2 which does not require C++11...

[adrfantini]

The tech support of my cluster told me they managed to install sf from CRAN with GDAL 2.3.0. Unfortunately I do not know how. Closing this, thanks.

[caijun]

I am working on macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 . I installed gdal 2.3.1 via homebrew following this post.

$> gdal-config --version
2.3.1

While installing sf, I encountered the above-mentioned error.

/opt-ictp/R/gdal-2.3.0/include/cpl_port.h(187): error: #error directive: Must have C++11 or newer.

After diggling on the web, I found this useful topic. Then I configured the CXX with clang++ -std=gnu++11 in ~/.R/Makevars.

CC=clang
CXX=clang++ -std=gnu++11
PKG_CXXFLAGS= -stdlib=libc++ -std=c++11

Finally I successfully installed sf and rgdal packages from CRAN by

install.packages("sf")
install.packages("rgdal")