[Rd] configure error under FC 4 64 bit (PR#8276)

[Peter Dalgaard]

rob at aetiologic.ca writes:

> Full_Name: Rob James
> Version: 2.2.0
> OS: Fedora Core 4 64 Bit
> Submission from: (NULL) (24.79.225.106)
> 
> 
> Attempting to run the configure script yields the following inscrutable error:
> 
> 
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
> available
> 
> 
> This occurs at the following point in the processing of the configure script:
> 
> checking for readline/history.h... no
> checking readline/readline.h usability... no
> checking readline/readline.h presence... no
> checking for readline/readline.h... no
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for main in -lncurses... yes
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for history_truncate_file... no
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?

Yes.

(a) read http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html,
especially the section C1, platform notes for Linux

(b) also read the section on what is a bug and what is not a bug in
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html#R%20Bugs 

(c) If you are that new to compiling R on FC4, why not use the RPMs
from Fedora Extra?

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