[R] problem with "history"

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Alberto Murta <amurta at ipimar.pt> writes:

> Martin Maechler wrote:
> > 
> > Instead of "re-compiling" you must "re-configure from scratch" after an OS
> > upgrade.
> > I.e.,
> >         rm config.cache
> >         {path/}configure
> >         make
> > etc
> > 
> > An even more foolproof (but considerably slower) version of the above would
> > be to throw away your 1.3.0 installation, and re configure from scratch.
> > This means that if your build directory is = source, you trash everything,
> > unpack the tar file again, etc.
> 
> I tried the latter option and it didn't solve the problem. I really
> can't understand what can be the problem. Anyway, I finally managed to
> put R to work with the arrow keys by installing the rpm package made for
> SuSE Linux 7.2 (from CRAN) instead of building from source.
> 
> Thank you very much for your support

Sounds like you may have lost the header files for readline in the
upgrade. Look for an RPM named readline-devel or so.

Otherwise, check the output from configure to see what it has to say
about readline. (Remove config.cache first).

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