[R] redhat 7.2 and rpm

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at> writes:

> since less than 24 hours my notbook runs linux,
> redhat 7.2
> 
> the first additional package i installed was R.
> i used the rpm from the server.
> 
> then, R would not start, complaining that it could not find
> 
> libreadline.so.4.1
> 
> redhat 7.2 installed libreadline.so.4.2
> and aliases 
> libreadline.so.4
> libreadline.so.
> 
> i i created a symbolic link named
> libreadline.so.4.1
> to
> libreadline.so.4.2
> and then things worked.
> 
> should it be like that.
> or should R try libreadline.so or at least
> libreadline.so.4?

No, that is a gross hack (which I inflicted on my notebook too...). 
The correct fix would be to install the real libreadline.so.4.1, or
recompile R for the newer library.

I wonder: Is this because configure selects the most precise version
number when looking for libraries? If so, it might get tricky to work
around for the RPM maintainer.

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