Thanks Peter. That certainly got me past that one, (Few more to go)
On Mon, 01-Feb-2016 at 09:30PM -0800, Peter Langfelder wrote: |> I am not overly familar with Mint, but you need the "development |> version" of the readline library. If you have a GUI package manager |> installed, open it and search for readline. You should see a version |> that ends with -dev or -devel; you need to install that. |> |> HTH, |> |> Peter |> |> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:06 PM, p_connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: |> > |> > I've installed R from the tgz file since about R-0.9.x following the |> > INSTALL instructions and have always succeeded using rpm-based OSes. |> > With each new OS, that involved installing various additional packages |> > before the configure script would complete. Figuring out which |> > packages were required usually involved searching for rpms that |> > supplied missing .so or .h files, dev packages or something else I |> > could figure out. |> > |> > I'm now trying to do the same with LinuxMint 17.2 but I got stuck when |> > this message came up: |> > |> > 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 |> > |> > Near the bottom of the log file it shows this: |> > |> > configure:6747: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c |> > configure:6747: $? = 0 |> > configure:6761: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c |> > conftest.c:17:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or |> > directory |> > #include <ac_nonexistent.h> |> > ^ |> > compilation terminated. |> > configure:6761: $? = 1 |> > configure: failed program was: |> > | /* confdefs.h */ |> > | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R" |> > |> > So I'm assuming that's behind the failure. Searching shows the same |> > problem shows up in all sorts of places for decades, notably cygwin |> > users. But I didn't see anything that would help to work out what is |> > missing. |> > |> > Ideas greatly appreciated. |> > |> > |> > best |> > Patrick |> > |> > ______________________________________________ |> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see |> > 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. -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
