R-beta: compiling R on RedHat 5.1

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Dr X Cai <caix at isdugp.bham.ac.uk> writes:

> ../lib/libunix.a(dataentry.o): In function `NextEvent':
> /home/ming/R-0.62.3/src/unix/dataentry.c:1286: undefined reference to `XNextEvent'
...
> ** I also tried to get binary-R in rpm files, but the message says:
> <> rpm -ivh R-base-0_62_3-1_i386.rpm
> failed dependencies:
>      libncurses.so.3.0 is needed by R-base-0.62.3-1
> I checked it, and found libncurses.so.3.0 is linked to
> libncurses.so.1.9.9e under the directory /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
> I am confused...
> 
> Your help is appreciated.

Looks like you need to install 
a) the X development package
b) ncurses

cf.:

$ rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
XFree86-devel-3.3.2-13
$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.0
ncurses3-1.9.9e-5


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