[R] How to read ./configure messages

[Patrick Connolly]

Thanks Peter.  That certainly got me past that one,  (Few more to go)


On Mon, 01-Feb-2016 at 09:30PM -0800, Peter Langfelder wrote:

|> I am not overly familar with Mint, but you need the "development
|> version" of the readline library. If you have a GUI package manager
|> installed, open it and search for readline. You should see a version
|> that ends with -dev or -devel; you need to install that.
|> 
|> HTH,
|> 
|> Peter
|> 
|> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:06 PM, p_connolly <p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
|> >
|> > I've installed R from the tgz file since about R-0.9.x following the
|> > INSTALL instructions and have always succeeded using rpm-based OSes.
|> > With each new OS, that involved installing various additional packages
|> > before the configure script would complete.  Figuring out which
|> > packages were required usually involved searching for rpms that
|> > supplied missing .so or .h files, dev packages or something else I
|> > could figure out.
|> >
|> > I'm now trying to do the same with LinuxMint 17.2 but I got stuck when
|> > this message came up:
|> >
|> >    checking for main in -ltermlib... no
|> >    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
|> >
|> > Near the bottom of the log file it shows this:
|> >
|> >    configure:6747: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c
|> >    configure:6747: $? = 0
|> >    configure:6761: gcc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c
|> >    conftest.c:17:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or
|> > directory
|> >     #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
|> >                                ^
|> >    compilation terminated.
|> >    configure:6761: $? = 1
|> >    configure: failed program was:
|> >    | /* confdefs.h */
|> >    | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
|> >
|> > So I'm assuming that's behind the failure.  Searching shows the same
|> > problem shows up in all sorts of places for decades, notably cygwin
|> > users.  But I didn't see anything that would help to work out what is
|> > missing.
|> >
|> > Ideas greatly appreciated.
|> >
|> >
|> > best
|> > Patrick
|> >
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