On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Anthony Liu wrote: > I am trying to install R2.4 in a non-standard folder on a mandrake 10 system. > > I did this: > > ./configure --prefix=/the/dir/where/I/want/r/to/go > > and I got the following error: > > configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not > available > > I know that I can do > > --with-readline=no > > But, I do want this readline feature. I have a whole bunch of readline > libraries: > > /lib/libreadline.so.4 > /lib/libreadline.so.4.1 > /lib/libreadline.so.4.2 > /lib/libreadline.so.4.3
But apparently not readline.so, which is what it is looking for. You are missing the readline-devel (or some such name) RPM: see the R-admin manual for further details. [...] -- 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 ______________________________________________ [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.
