[R] Readline on R-1.9.1a

[Roger D. Peng]

People who compile from source still need to install the necessary rpms.

-roger

Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Given this is turning out to be an FAQ, wouldn't it make sense to have these
> rpm's as depends for the R rpm?  (I always compile from source, so don't
> know what the R rpm actually depends on.)
> 
> Best,
> Andy
> 
> 
>>From: Peter Dalgaard
>>
>>"Kevin Bartz" <kbartz at loyaltymatrix.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>Hello! I'm trying to install R-1.9.1a with readline on Suse 
>>
>>Linux. As
>>
>>>recommended in other posts, I've installed readline and 
>>
>>readline-devel:
>>...
>>
>>>kevin at redtail:~/R-1.9.1> rpm -qa | grep readline
>>>
>>>readline-devel-32bit-9.0-0
>>>
>>>readline-32bit-9.0-0
>>>
>>>readline-4.3-207
>>>
>>>readline-devel-4.3-207
>>
>>...
>>
>>>configure:21307: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include
>>>-L/usr/local/lib conftest.c \
>>>
>>>-lreadline  -ldl -lm  >&5
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
>>>
>>>/usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
>>
>>...
>>
>>
>>>Any ideas? Thanks for any help you can provide.
>>
>>Missing ncurses or ncurses-devel, I believe.
>>
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