readline not found
The problem is solved. I cc this mail to John who probably had the same kind of problem.
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Laurent Faisnel <laurent.faisnel at ariase.com> writes:
That's the part of the log where you have the debug information (at the top) :
configure:11773: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lreadline -ldl -lm >&5 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
Oho... I think those routines are from libncurses,
I'm very impressed by your intuition (or memory). That's exactly where the problem was.
so you might be needing ncurses-5.2-28
I already had this one installed. Not sufficient.
ncurses-devel-5.2-28
But not this one. Once it is installed, evrything works fine and I have a readline-enabled R version.
(not sure you really need the last one, but...)
It's really needed. More info : http://dbforums.com/arch/147/2002/12/608415 (exactly the same) Peter : Thanks a lot. John : Hope it's a solution to your problem too. - Laurent