I have recently upgraded to R-3.5 and am having problems installing packages that should be compatible with R-3.5.

Using the following commands:

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("Rhdf5lib", version = "3.8")

On this setup:

             _                           
platform       x86_64-pc-linux-gnu         
arch           x86_64                      
os             linux-gnu                   
system         x86_64, linux-gnu           
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          5.1                         
year           2018                        
month          07                          
day            02                          
svn rev        74947                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
nickname       Feather Spray 

The install fails with the following output (including confusion references to the non-existant C: drive on this unix system):

Bioconductor version 3.8 (BiocManager 1.30.4), R 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Installing package(s) 'Rhdf5lib'
trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.8/bioc/src/contrib/Rhdf5lib_1.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 9211917 bytes (8.8 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 8.8 MB

* installing *source* package ‘Rhdf5lib’ ...
checking for gcc... gcc -std=gnu99
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
untarring hdf5small_cxx_1.10.3.tar.gz ...
building the szip library...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... mkdir: cannot create directory 'C:/Rtmp/cg27307-5984': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory 'C:/Rtmp/cg-27307': No such file or directory
config.guess: cannot create a temporary directory in C:/Rtmp
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
building the hdf5 library...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... no
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... mkdir: cannot create directory 'C:/Rtmp/cg27529-6174': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory 'C:/Rtmp/cg-27529': No such file or directory
config.guess: cannot create a temporary directory in C:/Rtmp
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
sh configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... no
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... mkdir: cannot create directory 'C:/Rtmp/cg27716-1717': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory 'C:/Rtmp/cg-27716': No such file or directory
config.guess: cannot create a temporary directory in C:/Rtmp
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
Makefile:32: recipe for target '_config' failed
make: *** [_config] Error 1
configure:    HDF5_INCLUDE=hdf5/src
configure:    HDF5_CXX_INCLUDE=hdf5/c++/src
configure:    HDF5_LIB=hdf5/src/.libs/libhdf5.a
configure:    HDF5_CXX_LIB=hdf5/c++/src/.libs/libhdf5_cpp.a
configure:    SZIP_LIB=hdf5/szip/src/.libs/libsz.a
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
mkdir -p "/home/gp444/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/Rhdf5lib/include"
cp hdf5/src/*.h /home/gp444/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/Rhdf5lib/include
cp hdf5/c++/src/*.h /home/gp444/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/Rhdf5lib/include
mkdir -p "/home/gp444/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/Rhdf5lib/lib/"
cp hdf5/src/.libs/libhdf5.a /home/gp444/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/Rhdf5lib/lib/
cp: cannot stat 'hdf5/src/.libs/libhdf5.a': No such file or directory
Makevars:25: recipe for target 'copying' failed
make: *** [copying] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Rhdf5lib’
* removing ‘/home/gp444/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5/Rhdf5lib’

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/Rtmpt6a5ei/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) :
  installation of package ‘Rhdf5lib’ had non-zero exit status

How do we go about troubleshooting this issue?