thanks, marc+brian. it was indeed not installed. i was under the mistaken impression that readline was just a linkto library. the compile now works great.
suggestion: if libreadline is installed and libreadline-devel is not installed, please print a warning/suggestion message during the ./configure. (i wonder whether there are other similar libraries for which I should have installed the devel version, too.)
I did search R documentation for "readline" failures via google for a while, but failed to find this particular reference. Yep, I did not fully read the docs from start to end again (its been a while), so mea culpa. still, adding the warning at ./configure time is a good idea. apologies for taking everyone's time. and thanks for the help. now I will try to research how to build a binary for md 9.2 for others (to make up!)
regards,
/iaw
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