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

[Rolf Turner]

Further to my previous email:

On 24/05/2010, at 6:59 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

	<SNIP>

> This one is probably that mentioned in the the R-admin manual for Snow 
> Leopard, to wit
> 
> 'Another quirk is that people have found that the X11 libraries are 
> not in the default linking path, so something like 
> @samp{LIBS=-L/usr/X11/lib} may be required.'
> 
> So add that line to the config.site file.


	<SNIP>

	I don't understand the syntax of ``@samp{ ...'' at all, but
	looking at the manual, as Brian witheringly suggested ( :-) )
	led me to see the line suggested *without* the @samp{ } wrapper.

	So I just put the line

		LIBS=-L/usr/X11/lib

	into the config.site file, and begorrah, it worked!  So it
	would now appear that I can build R from source, as I wanted.
	At least until something else changes. :-)

	So you can all stop worrying about me, for a while. :-)

		cheers,

			Rolf

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