On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Anthony Liu wrote:
> I am trying to install R2.4 in a non-standard folder on a mandrake 10
system.
>
> I did this:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/the/dir/where/I/want/r/to/go
>
> and I got the following error:
>
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
available
>
> I know that I can do
>
> --with-readline=no
>
> But, I do want this readline feature. I have a whole bunch of readline
libraries:
>
> /lib/libreadline.so.4
> /lib/libreadline.so.4.1
> /lib/libreadline.so.4.2
> /lib/libreadline.so.4.3
But apparently not readline.so, which is what it is looking for. You are
missing the readline-devel (or some such name) RPM: see the R-admin manual
for further details.
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