installation error: undefined symbol: BIO_meth_set_read

[dhicks]

I'm trying to install git2r on a Linux box. I don't maintain this system, so I don't know the details about how it's configured. I also don't have su / root access.

Both the install.packages("git2r") and make install (from a freshly-cloned repo) methods give the same error:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘git2r’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/home/djhicks/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.4/git2r/libs/git2r.so':
  /home/djhicks/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.4/git2r/libs/git2r.so: undefined symbol: BIO_meth_set_read

I'm attaching a log file piped from make install.

install_attempt.log

[stewid]

It seems from the log that the build configuration finds openssl. But for some reason it fails to find the path to the library and instead tries to build against a newer version of the openssl library with the BIO_meth_set_read function. Maybe it works if you try something similar to #308 where you instead add the path to openssl.

[dhicks]

I created ~/.R/Makevars, and added the line

SHLIB_LIBADD=-Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/bin/openssl

with the path for openssl. But I'm still receiving the same error.

[stewid]

Does it work if you try to install from the command line with

R CMD INSTALL --configure-args='--with-libssl-include=INCLUDE_PATH --with-libssl-lib=LIB_PATH' git2r

where you replace INCLUDE_PATH and LIB_PATH with your paths

[dhicks]

Sorry, would those be the same as the openssl paths? which libssl doesn't turn up any matches.