R help - Jan 2007 - Problem with "readline" in compilatio of R for Solaris 11 (Nevada) in x86

Dear friends,
In configuring R 2.4.1 for Solaris 11, using SunStudio 11 compilers, I 
get the following error. 

checking readline/history.h usability... no
checking readline/history.h presence... no
checking for readline/history.h... no
checking readline/readline.h usability... no
checking readline/readline.h presence... no
checking for readline/readline.h... no
checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
checking for main in -lncurses... no
checking for main in -ltermcap... yes
checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
checking for history_truncate_file... no
configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not 
available

I was not able to figure out what readline is about, whether it is 
optional or not (at some point of the script it seems to be a flag which 
can be true or false) and was therefore unable to debug it.

Thanks for any help you can provide

Octavio Tourinho
octavio.tourinho at terra.com.br
octou at ipea.gov.br

Please consult the R-admin manual, as the INSTALL file asked you to.
It explains this.

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Octavio Tourinho wrote:
> Dear friends,
> In configuring R 2.4.1 for Solaris 11, using SunStudio 11 compilers, I
> get the following error.
>
> checking readline/history.h usability... no
> checking readline/history.h presence... no
> checking for readline/history.h... no
> checking readline/readline.h usability... no
> checking readline/readline.h presence... no
> checking for readline/readline.h... no
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for main in -lncurses... no
> checking for main in -ltermcap... yes
> checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no
> checking for history_truncate_file... no
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
> available
>
> I was not able to figure out what readline is about, whether it is
> optional or not (at some point of the script it seems to be a flag which
> can be true or false) and was therefore unable to debug it.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide
>
> Octavio Tourinho
> octavio.tourinho at terra.com.br
> octou at ipea.gov.br
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595