Error in V8 installation

[laurabalasso]

I'm trying to install V8 in a Linux cluster to be able to install Rstan.
In R I run

Sys.setenv(DOWNLOAD_STATIC_LIBV8 = 1)
remotes::install_github("jeroen/V8")

and I get the following error

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lv8_monolith

Same thing happens if I install it directly from CRAN. Any clue about what's happening?

[Jeroen Ooms]

Can you please show the full build log, and tell me which linux you use (sessionInfo())

[laurabalasso]

Can you please show the full build log, and tell me which linux you use (sessionInfo())

This is the session info:

`> sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06)
Platform: powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.6 (Maipo)

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /m100/prod/opt/libraries/blas/3.8.0/gnu--8.4.0/lib/libblas.so
LAPACK: /m100/prod/opt/applications/r/4.0.1/gnu--8.4.0/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=C 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_4.0.1
`

and here I attach the full build log (CRAN installation)

V8_build_log.txt

[Jeroen Ooms]

Ah you run on powerpc hardware? Right now the download static method only works on x86_64.

An alternative method is to do: sudo yum install v8-devel and then not set DOWNLOAD_STATIC_LIBV8, can you try this?

[laurabalasso]

I'm working on an HPC system where I don't have sudo permissions. I guess asking the admin to do it is the only solution (?)

[Jeroen Ooms]

Yes I'm afraid so, I don't have a powerpc machine so I can't help. A simple sudo yum install v8-devel should do the job.