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[Peter Dalgaard]

"Liaw, Andy" <andy_liaw at 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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