Look at config.log for why it fails to find readline. We can't help you
without it.
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, jgarcia at ija.csic.es wrote:
> Hi; I'm trying to install R in a computer in which I have only non-root
> access, and I've got readline in a local own directory.
>
> I cannot find my way to compile with readline. I've tried:
>
> [sun2]/global/jgarcia/SRC/R/R-2.7.1: ./configure
> --prefix=/global/jgarcia/BIN/R
> --with-readline-includes=/global/jgarcia/BIN/readline/include
> --with-readline-libs=/global/jgarcia/readline/lib
>
> Pointing to my local readline directories, but this doesn't have any
> effect, as I obtain:
>
> configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
> available
>
> Please, could you help with this?
>
> Best regards,
> jgarcia
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