use synaptic or apt-get to get readline and readline-dev, you also do not need f2c as there is a real fortran, so use synaptic/apt-get to get gfortran and use the following syntax when running ./configure:
env F77=/usr/bin/gfortran-4.0 ./configure I have Ubuntu Edgy and the above works with almost any R, not only 2.4.0 Best, Oleg PS. This is not a question for R-devel :) T C wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the place to post this question, but, I am > having trouble compiling the source code. I do have a suitable C > compiler and f2c but I get this error when I run ./configure > > configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are > not available > > Any ideas? Thanks. > > ______________________________________________ > [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. -- Dr Oleg Sklyar * EBI/EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England * +44-1223-494466 ______________________________________________ [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.
