[R-SIG-Mac] Problem with readline when building R from source.

[Rolf Turner]

On 22/05/2010, at 2:23 PM, Ben Madin wrote:

> Rolf,
> 
> Given the weekend status, I'll hazard a guess that you want to add these as environment variables, so in an attempt to be monosyllabic:
> 
> Assuming that you are using the bash shell (which has been the default for a while) log in as the user you are going to run the ./configure script as, and at the command prompt type
> 
> export F77="gfortran -arch x86_64"
> export FC="gfortran -arch x86_64"
> 
> 
> to see what is currently set, just type 
> 
> export
> 
> (if you are still using the tcsh shell, the I think the command becomes setenv instead of export, and it is slightly different, so you will have to look that up)
> 
> good luck, I may have the wrong end of the stick here.

Thanks for the input.  Seems to work.  I actually use tcsh, so I did the
equivalent tcsh thing:

setenv F77 "gfortran -arch x86_64"
setenv FC "gfortran -arch x86_64"

That solved the fortran problem, and the configure goes on well past the point where
it hung up last time.  But it eventually comes to a shuddering halt with an error
about X11 --- which is where I came in, really.  I'm toadally mystified.  The error
I'm getting is:

configure: error: --with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available

That is just like the error I was getting in respect of readline; I was told to update my
readline (via a fancy ``curl'' command).  I looked in //r.research.att.com/libs and could
not see any X11 package to which to apply a curly.

What the <expletive deleted> do I do now?

(And why do these things always happen to ***me***???)

	cheers,

		Rolf
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