R devel - Oct 1998 - Bug Report? readline...

Hello developers,

I just compiled R 0.62.3 on my Linux-box. However, the R
prompt doesn't seem to use the gnu-readline, but generates
fancy escapes when using the cursor keys.

As I
- have GNU readline installed,
- have run configure with option --enable-readline,
- unsuccessfully have spent half a day browsing through
  the sources in order to find a reason...

...I don't know what went wrong. Is this a bug?

If you can tell me how I can activate the readline,
please mail to my private address (wreich@gwdg.de)

TIA, Wendelin

cu/ru...
===================================================Wendelin Reich             
Tel. Job: +49 551 397283
Dept. of Econometrics       Tel. prv: +49 551 485522
and Statistics
University of Goettingen              wreich@gwdg.de

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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Wendelin Reich wrote:
> Hello developers,
> 
> I just compiled R 0.62.3 on my Linux-box. However, the R
> prompt doesn't seem to use the gnu-readline, but generates
> fancy escapes when using the cursor keys.
> 
The most likely explanation is that readline isn't where configure was
looking.  If you do configure without (possibly even with)  
--enable-readline it will try to find the library. If it fails at that
point the file config.log will contain some error messages indicating what
didn't work.

These, together with information on where readline is located and what
version it is, would help diagnose the problem.


Thomas Lumley
Biostatistics
University of Washington






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