Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Benjamin Otto wrote: > > >>Dear Mr. Ripley, >> >>thanks for the quick reply. I set these flags now, however there still seem >>to be some problems with readline. The corresponding cofigure output is: >> >>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... yes >>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 > > > What does config.log say? It looks like it is not finding libreadline.so. > You may need LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to include where it is.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH affects the dynamic link loader, which is probably not the issue here. the barbaric manipulation of CFLAGS (=-I and -L) is needed. >>The existing compiler is gcc version 2.8.1 and the linker editor used by gcc > > > Wow, that is really old! 2.8.1 would be pre-cygnus/egcs , 1997-1998 ... should breath down the sys-admin's neck to get it upgraded - ncurse, termcap, tcltk, etc would be rather old as well... ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
