[Rd] Compiling R 2.4.0 in ubuntu/linux

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 17:58 -0400, T C wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the place to post this question, but, I am
> having trouble compiling the source code. I do have a suitable C
> compiler and f2c but I get this error when I run ./configure
> 
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are
> not available
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks.

You need the readline development headers, which in general are found in
<package_name>-devel package available for your distribution. You might
have readline installed, but clearly you don't have the development
headers or they are installed in a non-standard place that the configure
script can't find them.

I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, but on Fedora the package you need is
readline-devel. Install it using Ubuntu's package manager and then try
to recompile.

And please *don't* post to both R-Help *and* R-devel; posting to one
list is quite sufficient and only R-devel is the appropriate list for
questions of this nature.

HTH

G

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