I am trying to install R on a pretty up-to-date CentOS system. I have
tried installing 2.14.0 and 2.13.2. In both cases, the configure step
fails, and does not produce a Makefile. So, of course, I can't issue
"make".
The errors that I can find in config.log are, first, several missing
files: ac_nonexistent.h, minix/config.h., readline/history.h, and
readline/readline.h.
Then, what seems to finally bring configure to a halt is the final
error:
configure:20796: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs
are not available
After this error, configure dumps long lists of shell variables, output
variables, and confdefs.h -- none of which tell a whole lot, as far as I
can see -- and then exits with a status of "1".
Anyone know what this means? I can give bigger snippets of the
config.log, if anyone wants to see them.
I have installed R on several Linux machines. This is the first time
I've been stumped.
Thanks.
--Sam