[R] R-1.9.0: configure/install problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This looks like a readline version problem for the shell /bin/sh
(presumably actually bash) you have installed.  Do you have an older
version of readline somewhere on your system?


On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Ulrich Flenker wrote:

> Dear R-helpers,
> 
> for the first time since R-0.6x I have to face installation problem. I
> switched to a new Linux-box (SuSE 9.0) and installed as many libraries as
> possible.
> 
> R-1.9.0.tgz went to /usr/local/lib and was extracted without problems.
> 
> After running properly for a while, 'configure' (called without any
> switches) gave
> "configure: creating ./config.status" which was followed by
> "/bin/sh: relocation error: /bin/sh: undefined symbol:  rl_completion_suppress_append".
> 
> The last line obviously wasn't produced by 'configure' as it came via
> stderr.
> 
> No makefile was created. I ran './config.status' followed by 'make'. After
> several minutes of behaving nice, the compilation process aborted with
> the following output:
> 
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library'
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> make[2]: *** [Rdfiles] Fehler 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library'
> make[1]: *** [docs] Fehler 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library'
> make: [docs] Fehler 2 (ignoriert)
> make[1]: Entering directory 
> `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended'
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended'
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended'
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended'
> MAKE="make" R_LIBS= ../../../bin/R CMD INSTALL -l ../../../library 
> survival.tgz
> sh: relocation error: sh: undefined symbol: rl_completion_suppress_append
> make[2]: *** [survival.ts] Fehler 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended'
> make[1]: *** [recommended-packages] Fehler 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/local/lib/R-1.9.0/src/library/Recommended'
> make: *** [stamp-recommended] Fehler 2
> 
> The same occured when trying to build R-1.8.0 on my new system. In
> contrast it configured and compiled nicely on my 4 year old Linux
> system. Can somebody help?


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