Readline and 0.62

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

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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