[R] configure can't get readline to work

[Liaw, Andy]

Thanks very much to Prof. Dalgaard.  The problem was missing ncurses and
ncurses-devel.  After installing those, configure now finds readline
properly.

Cheers,
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dalgaard BSA [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:44 PM
> To: Liaw, Andy
> Cc: 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
> Subject: Re: [R] configure can't get readline to work
> 
> 
> "Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> writes:
> 
> > Dear R-help,
> > 
> > I'm running into some strange problem compiling R 1.6.2 on 
> Mandrake Linux
> > 9.0.  When I do 
> > 
> >   ./configure --enable-R-shlib
> > 
> > I get the following in config.log:
> > ===========================
> > configure:11366: checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline
> > configure:11397: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c
> > -lreadline  -ldl -lm  >&5
> > 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so:
> > undefined reference to `tgetnum'
> > 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so:
> > undefined reference to `tgoto'
> > 
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so:
> > undefined reference to `tgetflag'
> ...
> > configure:11418: result: no
> > =================================
> > 
> > Does this mean my readline installation is somehow 
> defective?  I've tried
> > re-installing readline (and readline-devel) version 4.3-4, 
> to no avail.  Can
> > someone give me some hints?
> 
> Those are ncurses routines, so if it were RedHat I'd point you towards
> the ncurses and ncurses-devel RPMs. Mandrake is usually similar.
> 
> (Curiously, on RH, the readline RPM does not require ncurses, even
> though the library clearly has symbol references to it...)
> 
> -- 
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