[R] Unable to configure R 2.2.1 on Solaris 5.10 x86_64

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Have we not seen such posts before from you?  Perhaps you need to seek or 
employ a local Solaris guru (if they exist at `mac.com', or whatever your 
real but unstated affiliation is).

The information about what is going wrong is in the file config.log, so 
please study it.

But as it is not finding your readline headers, they appear not to be 
where you are saying to look. You certainly should not be having 
/foo/include/readline in your cpp path, just /foo/include since the 
headers looked for are of the form <readline/history.h>.

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Aric Gregson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Apologies for the post here. I have read the R-Admin (learned
> a lot!) and searched the web for days, but still fail at compiling R on
> my Ultra 20 running solaris 10 x86 1/06.
>
> This is the tail of './configure' output:
> .....
> checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
> checking readline/history.h usability... no
> checking readline/history.h presence... no
> checking for readline/history.h... no
> checking readline/readline.h usability... no
> checking readline/readline.h presence... no
> checking for readline/readline.h... no
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for main in -lncurses... no
> checking for main in -ltermcap... yes
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for history_truncate_file... no
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are
> not available
>
> My R-2.2.1/config.site has the following changes from default:
>
> CC="cc -xtarget=opteron -xarch=amd64"
> CFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -dalign"
> CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/sfw/include -I/opt/sfw/include/readline \
> -I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/SUNWspro/include -I/opt/csw/include/readline
> F77="f95 -xarch=amd64 -xtarget=opteron"
> FFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -dalign"
> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/SUNWspro/lib/amd64/ -L/opt/sfw/lib -L/opt/csw/lib
> CXX="CC -xarch=amd64 -xtarget=opteron"
> CXXFLAGS="-xO5 -xlibmil -dalign"
> R_BROWSER=mozilla
> MAKE=gmake
>
> My .zshrc file has the following (as I saw that some of the LDFLAGS
> should match my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh):
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/sfw/include:/opt/sfw/include/readline:/usr/local/lib:/usr/X/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/ucblib:/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/etc/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/opt/SUNWspro/lib/amd64/:/opt/sfw/lib:/opt/csw/lib

You do not want include paths in the library path.

>
> Readline (version 4.2 from the Sun Companion CD) is located
> in /opt/sfw/include/readline. Both the readline.h and history.h files
> are there. Version 5.0 is located in /opt/csw/include/readline (from
> Blastwave). As you can see, I am new at compiling in general and
> Solaris specifically. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> System information:
>
> System = SunOS
> Release = 5.10
> KernelID = Generic_118844-26
> Machine = i86pc
> OEM# = 0
> Origin# = 1
> NumCPU = 1
>
> thanks,
>
> aric


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