[Rd] compile and install R @ one user defined directory? (PR#13779)

[Peter Dalgaard]

xwu at epsilon.com wrote:
> Dear Helper,
> 
> Under UNIX "Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARC" and with following "R Installa=
> tion and Administration" @ http://cran.r-project.org/,
> 
> First, I unzipped the unix version winzip source code R-2.9.0.tar.gz  using=
>  following commands at my own dir:
> 
>               /home/xwu/R1>gzip -dc R-2.9.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
>              (a subdir  /home/xwu/R1R-2.9.0/ was created successfully under=
>  /home/xwu/R1)
> 
> Then I go to /home/xwu/R1/R-2.9.0 to compilation and installation using fol=
> lowing command:
> 
>             /home/xwu/R1/R-2.9.0> ./configure --prefix=3D/home/xwu/R1/R-2.9=
> .0
> 
> The error comes:
>         configure: error: --with-readline=3Dyes (default) and headers/libs =
> are not available
> 
> 
> is there something error? or should I add more env shell variable? or shoul=
> d I continue to move on by typing?
> 
>     make prefix=3D/home/xwu/R1/R-2.9.0       install

This is not a bug. Please do not abuse the bug repository.

The error is what it says it is: You don't have readline headers and
libraries, or not where configure can find them. Install them or use
configure --without-readline --prefix=....

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