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v8 on Centos 8 requires extra steps #68

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slopp opened this issue Nov 12, 2020 · 2 comments
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v8 on Centos 8 requires extra steps #68

slopp opened this issue Nov 12, 2020 · 2 comments

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@slopp
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slopp commented Nov 12, 2020

the current v8 rules only apply to centos 6 and 7

unfortunately it appears v8 is not supported in the centos 8 epel release

http://www.lib4dev.in/info/jeroen/V8/27154014 contains instructions for workarounds
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joncfoo commented Nov 12, 2020

Instructions from the link above for CentOS 8:

yum install epel-release 
yum module enable nodejs:13
yum install v8-devel

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jeroen commented Dec 10, 2020

As an alternative solution on x86_64 systems you can use:

Sys.setenv(DOWNLOAD_STATIC_LIBV8 = 1)
install.packages("V8")

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