On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Vin Everett wrote: > I am trying to compile R-2.1.1 on Solaris10, with the Studio10 compilers. > > When I try to compile 64bit with > CFLAGS="-xarch=amd64" > export CFLAGS > > I get a configure failure on > > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no > checking for history_truncate_file... no > configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not > available > > unset CFLAGS and its fine will compile 32bit. > > Any ideas gratefully received. > > I should say I installed the readline headers etc /usr/local
So, your readline is probably not 64-bit: see the R-admin manual and check in config.log. > a configure with --without-readline but with CFLAGS="-xarch=amd64" > goes on to > > checking for dummy main to link with Fortran libraries... none > checking for Fortran name-mangling scheme... unknown > configure: WARNING: unknown Fortran name-mangling scheme > checking whether f77 appends underscores to external names... unknown > configure: error: cannot use Fortran > > Again this is the studio10 fortran. Please note you need to set FFLAGS to match. If you consult the R-admin manual you will see that sparc users need somewhat different settings: please emulate those. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html