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"Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw@merck.com> writes:
From: Lars Schouw Can anyone explain what this means the NEWS for for 2.1 beta? R is now linked against ncurses/termlib/termcap only if readline is specified (now the default) and that requires it. I get an error while running configure: checking for history_truncate_file... no configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available
It means what it says: configure will try to find ncurses/termcap/readline (and their headers) unless you explicitly say --with-readline=no.
..the point being that you now get an error during configure, instead of a just build with non-functioning arrow keys. (If you're a sysadmin, you will catch the issue immediately, rather than your users at some later point...) (On Linux systems, it usually just means that you need to install readline-devel and ncurses-devel packages.)
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