When I tried to compile R on a S.u.S.E-4.4 linux box, I ended up with unresolved symbols from libtermcap. So I decided to use the newer libncurses. Applying the following patch to configure.in and creating a new configure script with "autoconf configure.in > configure" solved my problems. --- configure.in.orig Tue May 6 15:05:20 1997 +++ configure.in Tue May 6 15:05:23 1997 @@ -142,13 +142,17 @@ # LIBRARIES # -# This is set up so we only get one of one of -ltermcap and -ltermlib +# This is set up so we only get one of one of -lncurses -ltermcap and -ltermlib AC_CHECK_LIB(m, sin) +AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, main) +if test -z "HAVE_LIBNCURSES" +then AC_CHECK_LIB(termcap, main) if test -z "HAVE_LIBTERMCAP" then AC_CHECK_LIB(termlib, main) +fi fi AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, main) AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, dlopen) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Albrecht Gebhardt email : albrecht.gebhardt at uni-klu.ac.at Institut fuer Mathematik Tel. : (++43 463) 2700/837 Universitaet Klagenfurt Fax : (++43 463) 2700/834 Villacher Str. 161 A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=