[R] How do I compile with readline?

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Ulf Mehlig <umehlig at uni-bremen.de> writes:

> "John S. Walker" <jsw9c at avery.med.virginia.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > I'm trying to compile my version of R with the readline library and
>  > it doesn't seem to work.  I've tried --enable-readline and while
>  > the readline_history options appear to be set in the config.cache
>  > file activated I don't seem to be linking agains the readline
>  > library (it is in it's usual place).  I'm not getting any error
>  > messages.  Any suggestions?
> 
> I once had this problem on my computer -- the problem was simply that
> I didn't have the readline development libraries an my machine (that
> might be a separate package in one or the other Linux distribution).
> Don't know, but maybe it's just that ...

Yes. Trouble #2 is that sometimes the readline version is not recent
enough. According to my fading memory, you need version 2.1 or better
(I have 2.2). The check for rl_callback_read_char by configure is not
an arbitrary sanity check. The callback functions are used by R and
have to be there. (This so that R can work with X graphics events).

A quick check on your library would be along the lines of:

[pd at blueberry r-devel]$ nm /usr/lib/libreadline.so | grep callback
00018320 t _rl_callback_newline
00018370 T rl_callback_handler_install
00018490 T rl_callback_handler_remove
000183d0 T rl_callback_read_char


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