[R] problem on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (ia64)

[Paul Hiemstra]

Hi,

You need to install the headers/libs for readline. Probably using your 
package manager, look for something like readline-devel.

cheers,
Paul

Yuan Zhidong wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> When I install R on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (ia64)
> (Linux a450 2.6.16.21-0.8-default #1 SMP Mon Jul 3 18:25:39 UTC 2006 
> ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux)
> it reported the wrong messages at the end:
>
> # ./configure                                   checking build system 
> type... ia64-unknown-linux-gnu                                 
> checking host system type... 
> ia64-unknown-linux-gnu                                  loading site 
> script 
> './config.site'                                                  
> loading build specific script 
> './config.site'                                        checking for 
> pwd... 
> /bin/pwd                                                         
> checking whether builddir is srcdir... 
> yes                                           checking for working 
> aclocal... found                                                
> checking for working autoconf... 
> found                                              
> ................................................................................................................. 
>
> checking for readline/readline.h... no
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for main in -lncurses... 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
>
>
> Could you tell me how to fix the problem? Thank you!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Yuan Zhidong
>
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