On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 15:33 -0800, Bricklemyer, Ross S wrote: > All, > > Apparently the attachment did not make it through the list serve. > > I am having difficulty installing R-2.4.1 on Mandriva Linux 2007 > Discovery. Thanks to the help of Doug Bates I got further along the > path (Thanks Doug!!). I now cannot figure out which line of code needs > modified in order for configure to complete. Please see below for the > last several lines of output. > > > checking whether the gfortran linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) > supports shared libraries... yes > checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so > checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate > checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes > checking whether makeinfo version is at least 4.7... yes > checking for cos in -lm... yes > checking for sin in -lm... yes > checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes > checking readline/history.h usability... yes > checking readline/history.h presence... yes > checking for readline/history.h... yes > checking readline/readline.h usability... yes > checking readline/readline.h presence... yes > checking for readline/readline.h... yes > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no > checking for main in -lncurses... no > checking for main in -ltermcap... no > checking for main in -ltermlib... no > 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
You need to have the readline development related files installed. On RPM based systems it is typically called 'readline-devel' or similar. Install that RPM and you should be good to go. HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ [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.
