"Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear R-help, > > I'm running into some strange problem compiling R 1.6.2 on Mandrake Linux > 9.0. When I do > > ./configure --enable-R-shlib > > I get the following in config.log: > =========================== > configure:11366: checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline > configure:11397: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c > -lreadline -ldl -lm >&5 > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: > undefined reference to `tgetnum' > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: > undefined reference to `tgoto' > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: > undefined reference to `tgetflag' ... > configure:11418: result: no > ================================= > > Does this mean my readline installation is somehow defective? I've tried > re-installing readline (and readline-devel) version 4.3-4, to no avail. Can > someone give me some hints?
Those are ncurses routines, so if it were RedHat I'd point you towards the ncurses and ncurses-devel RPMs. Mandrake is usually similar. (Curiously, on RH, the readline RPM does not require ncurses, even though the library clearly has symbol references to it...) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
