[R] configure fails for R 2.3.1 on SunOS 5.8

[Benjamin Tyner]

Thanks; configure completes succesfully using --with-readline=no. 
However, toward the end of running make, it reports

mkdir ../share/locale/en at quot
mkdir ../share/locale/en at quot/LC_MESSAGES
  en at quot
you should 'make docs' now ...
*** Error code 255
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `R.1'
Current working directory ~/btyner/R-2.3.1/doc
*** Error code 1 (ignored)
building all R object docs (text, HTML, LaTeX, examples)
you need Perl version 5 to build the R object docs
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `help-indices'
Current working directory ~/btyner/R-2.3.1/src/library
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `docs'
Current working directory ~/btyner/R-2.3.1/src/library
*** Error code 1 (ignored)
begin installing recommended package VR

I do not have perl installed, as I thought one could install sans 
documentation.

Ben


Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>Benjamin Tyner <btyner at gmail.com> writes:
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>>Does this mean I need to use '--with-readline=no'? configure says:
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>>configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not 
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>Yes, or that you need to install readline headers/libs (in a
>sufficiently recent version), or that you have installed them, but not
>where R looks for them, so that you need to specify the location.
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