[R] Readline on R-1.9.1a

[Liaw, Andy]

Given this is turning out to be an FAQ, wouldn't it make sense to have these
rpm's as depends for the R rpm?  (I always compile from source, so don't
know what the R rpm actually depends on.)

Best,
Andy

> From: Peter Dalgaard
> 
> "Kevin Bartz" <kbartz at loyaltymatrix.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello! I'm trying to install R-1.9.1a with readline on Suse 
> Linux. As
> > recommended in other posts, I've installed readline and 
> readline-devel:
> ...
> > kevin at redtail:~/R-1.9.1> rpm -qa | grep readline
> > 
> > readline-devel-32bit-9.0-0
> > 
> > readline-32bit-9.0-0
> > 
> > readline-4.3-207
> > 
> > readline-devel-4.3-207
> 
> ...
> > configure:21307: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include
> > -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c \
> > 
> > -lreadline  -ldl -lm  >&5
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
> ...
> 
> > Any ideas? Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 
> Missing ncurses or ncurses-devel, I believe.
> 
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