Thanks; configure completes succesfully using --with-readline=no. However, toward the end of running make, it reports
mkdir ../share/locale/[EMAIL PROTECTED] mkdir ../share/locale/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/LC_MESSAGES [EMAIL PROTECTED] you should 'make docs' now ... *** Error code 255 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R.1' Current working directory ~/btyner/R-2.3.1/doc *** Error code 1 (ignored) building all R object docs (text, HTML, LaTeX, examples) you need Perl version 5 to build the R object docs *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `help-indices' Current working directory ~/btyner/R-2.3.1/src/library *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `docs' Current working directory ~/btyner/R-2.3.1/src/library *** Error code 1 (ignored) begin installing recommended package VR I do not have perl installed, as I thought one could install sans documentation. Ben Peter Dalgaard wrote: >Benjamin Tyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Does this mean I need to use '--with-readline=no'? configure says: >> >> > > > > >>configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not >>available >> >> > >Yes, or that you need to install readline headers/libs (in a >sufficiently recent version), or that you have installed them, but not >where R looks for them, so that you need to specify the location. > > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
