Local installation of pcre2 not detected while installing R 4.0.4 from source

I am trying to do a build and local install of R 4.0.4 on Red Hat Linux 6.8. There were several unmet dependencies which I resolved by doing local installations (following the procedure in this ). However, I couldn't resolve the issue of pcre2 with that procedure. This is the configure command I run: ./configure --with-pcre2 --prefix=$HOME/bin/R-4.0.4 --enable-R-shlib LDFLAGS="-L/$HOME/local/zlib-1.2.11/lib -L/$HOME/local/bzip2-1.0.8/lib -L/$HOME/local/xz-5.2.5/lib -L/$HOME/local/pcre2-10.00/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/$HOME/local/zlib-1.2.11/include" This is the error I get: checking whether PCRE support suffices... no configure: error: PCRE2 library and headers are required, or use --with-pcre1 and PCRE >= 8.32 with UTF-8 support I also tried configure with a local installation of pcre-8.44 and --with-pcre1 flag but I get the same error. What should I do so that the configure script detects the pcre2 local installation?