I tried to get old libraries (libreadline4) installed without success.
 If the configure script checks for old versions of the readline library can't we just comment the corresponding lines?



This check is in there to check for some really old readline versions
that didn't allow the style of readline interface that R used. Do you
happen to have such an older version that could get picked up by the
linker? 

   
   
 
What's inside config.log corresponding to the messages? These tests
generally work by compiling and linking a small test program, and if
that fails, you get the "no" part. However, sometimes the program
fails for some other reason and the message becomes misleading.



Here what's in the config.log file for the readline part.
 Thanks a lot!
 
 configure:21592: result: yes
 configure:21627: checking for readline/readline.h
 configure:21634: result: yes
 configure:21652: checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline
 configure:21682: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lreadline   >&5
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
 /usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 configure:21688: $? = 1
 configure: failed program was:
 | /* confdefs.h.  */
 | 
 | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
 | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R"
 | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.2.0"
 | #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 2.2.0"
 | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "r-bugs@R-project.org"
 | #define PACKAGE "R"
 | #define VERSION "2.2.0"
 | #define R_PLATFORM "i686-pc-linux-gnu"
 | #define R_CPU "i686"
 | #define R_VENDOR "pc"
 | #define R_OS "linux-gnu"
 | #define Unix 1
 | #ifdef __cplusplus
 | extern "C" void std::exit (int) throw (); using std::exit;
 | #endif
 | #define STDC_HEADERS 1
 | #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
 | #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
 | #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
 | #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
 | #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
 | #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
 | #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
 | #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
 | #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
 | #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
 | #define HAVE_LIBM 1
 | #define HAVE_LIBDL 1
 | #define HAVE_READLINE_HISTORY_H 1
 | #define HAVE_READLINE_READLINE_H 1
 | /* end confdefs.h.  */
 | 
 | /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
 | #ifdef __cplusplus
 | extern "C"
 | #endif
 | /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
 |    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
 | char rl_callback_read_char ();
 | int
 | main ()
 | {
 | rl_callback_read_char ();
 |   ;
 |   return 0;
 | }
 configure:21714: result: no
 configure:21730: checking for main in -lncurses
 configure:21754: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lncurses   >&5
 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 configure:21760: $? = 1
 configure: failed program was:
 | /* confdefs.h.  */
 | 
 | #define PACKAGE_NAME "R"
 | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "R"
 | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.2.0"
 | #define PACKAGE_STRING "R 2.2.0"
 | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "r-bugs@R-project.org"
 | #define PACKAGE "R"
 | #define VERSION "2.2.0"
 | #define R_PLATFORM "i686-pc-linux-gnu"
 | #define R_CPU "i686"
 | #define R_VENDOR "pc"
 | #define R_OS "linux-gnu"
 | #define Unix 1
 | #ifdef __cplusplus
 | extern "C" void std::exit (int) throw (); using std::exit;
 | #endif
 | #define STDC_HEADERS 1
 | #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
 | #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
 | #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
 | #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
 | #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
 | #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
 | #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
 | #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
 | #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
 | #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
 | #define HAVE_LIBM 1
 | #define HAVE_LIBDL 1
 | #define HAVE_READLINE_HISTORY_H 1
 | #define HAVE_READLINE_READLINE_H 1
 | /* end confdefs.h.  */
 | 
 | 
 | int
 | main ()
 | {
 | main ();
 |   ;
 |   return 0;
 | }
 



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