Readline and 0.62
Goran Brostrom <gb@stat.umu.se> writes:
Developers, today I installed R-snapshot (June 2) on my Redhat Sparc/Linux 4.2, with no problems, but obviously this version of R was compiled without 'readline' (I also have R-0.61.3, which works as expected with readline). Output from './configure', related to readline: ... checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... (cached) no ... checking for readline/history.h... (cached) yes ... I have 'readline-2.0-10' according to 'rpm ...'. Does 0.62 need a more recent version of readline than 0.61? Or is the problem somewhere else?
Yes, No. You need readline 2.1 for 0.62. This is because of some new event handling stuff necessary for the multiple graphics devices. This requires the "alternate readline interface" (keypress-based) which isn't there in 2.0. There's an rpm of the newer readline in the contrib directory at redhat (or mirrors). (Note to self: remember to put this into the release notes...)
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