I do not know exactly about Sun Sparc but I use some *nix and readline is a
library available and is used by the operating system to recall lines of
previously typed input. So I suggest to search readline package for Sun
Sparc.

Good luck
Caveman




On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:18 AM, <Ted.H.Fong@kp.org> wrote:

> Dear R-HELP,
>
> We are compiling R-2.12.1 for 64 bits onto a Sun Sparc machine below:
> SunOS 5.10 Generic_142900-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-T12
>
> The source was compiled successfully with "gcc version 3.4.6" by using the
> default configuration and has produced R-2.12.1 in 32 bits.
>
> Compiling R-2.12.1 for the 64 bits by configuring the config.site file as
> follow:
>     CC="gcc -m64"
>     F77="f77 -m64"
>     CXX="g++ -m64"
>     FC=$F77
>     CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/sfw/include'
>     LDFLAGS='-L/usr/lib/64 -L/usr/sfw/lib/64 -L/usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9
> -L/usr/sfw/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.3/sparcv9'
>
>
> has produced following messages:
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
> available
> See attached configure.out.txt file and config.site file .
>
>
> Appreciate your help to identify the missing header/libs when compiling
> R-2.12.1 for 64 bits on the above platform ?
>
> The R-2.11.1 compiled version from Sunfreeware download is verified to be
> 32 bits.
> > .Machine$sizeof.pointer
> [1] 4
> This should return 8 for 64 bits.
>
> Would  there be a compiled version of R-2.12.1 64 bits available for
> download ?
>
> Thanks
> Ted Fong
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