configure can't get readline to work

Tue, Feb 11, 2003 5:57 PM

Thanks very much to Prof. Dalgaard.  The problem was missing ncurses and
ncurses-devel.  After installing those, configure now finds readline
properly.

Cheers,
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:44 PM
To: Liaw, Andy
Cc: 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject: Re: [R] configure can't get readline to work


"Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at merck.com> writes:

Dear R-help,

I'm running into some strange problem compiling R 1.6.2 on

Mandrake Linux

9.0.  When I do 

  ./configure --enable-R-shlib

I get the following in config.log:
===========================
configure:11366: checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline
configure:11397: gcc -o conftest -g -O2  -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c
-lreadline  -ldl -lm  >&5

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so:

undefined reference to `tgetnum'

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so:

undefined reference to `tgoto'

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.2/../../../libreadline.so:

undefined reference to `tgetflag'

...

configure:11418: result: no
=================================

Does this mean my readline installation is somehow

defective?  I've tried

re-installing readline (and readline-devel) version 4.3-4,

to no avail.  Can

someone give me some hints?

Those are ncurses routines, so if it were RedHat I'd point you towards
the ncurses and ncurses-devel RPMs. Mandrake is usually similar.

(Curiously, on RH, the readline RPM does not require ncurses, even
though the library clearly has symbol references to it...)

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