I am trying to build [R] v1.3.1 *locally* on a Sun Solaris 8 machine. One problem I am currently struggeling with is to make the command-line history function to work. I have installed GNU readline version 4.2 (latest version). Looking at the "config.log" file it seems that all readline related checks, e.g. "readline/history.h", passes (they did not before installing GNU readline). In [R] almost all GNU readline command-line editing functions work, but I can't get the history functions (Ctrl+P, Ctrl+N or arrow up and down) to work. I am missing something, but what? Could you please refer me to a solution. Thanks Henrik Bengtsson Dept. of Mathematical Statistics @ Centre for Mathematical Sciences Lund Institute of Technology/Lund University, Sweden (+2h UTC) Office: P316, +46 46 222 9611 (phone), +46 46 222 4623 (fax) -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Henrik Bengtsson <hb at maths.lth.se> writes:> I am trying to build [R] v1.3.1 *locally* on a Sun Solaris 8 machine. > One problem I am currently struggeling with is to make the command-line > history function to work. I have installed GNU readline version 4.2 > (latest version). Looking at the "config.log" file it seems that all > readline related checks, e.g. "readline/history.h", passes (they did not > before installing GNU readline). > > In [R] almost all GNU readline command-line editing functions work, but I > can't get the history functions (Ctrl+P, Ctrl+N or arrow up and down) to > work. I am missing something, but what? Could you please refer me to a > solution. > > Thanks > > Henrik BengtssonAlso this one? checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline.. Two suggestions. One is that you forgot to remove config.cache so that the test lingers on from before you installed readline. The other is more insidious, and bit me on Solaris 7 recently using tools from www.sunfreeware.com: Apparently the shared readline libs that they ship is incompatible with gcc-3.0.1 so that the test fails even though readline actually does have rl_callback_read_char. I had to remove the shared version of the library to make it take. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._