1) Please ask about R installation on the R-devel list: as the posting
guide says
Questions likely to prompt discussion unintelligible to
non-programmers should go to to R-devel.
2) This is covered quite explicitly in the 'R Installation and
Administration Manual'. Search for 'readline' there, and also make
sure you have studied the section on installation on AIX (which also
mentions this).
3) You always need to mention the version of R you are trying to
install.
On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Harvir Singh wrote:
> Dear Sir/ Madam,
>
> I am trying to install R in my AIX-5.3 machine but its giving some error
> during configuration as given below:
>
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking for cos in -lm... yes
> checking for sin in -lm... yes
> checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
> 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... no
> checking for main in -ltermlib... no
> 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 have attached its log file with this mail. Please help me. Earliest reply
> will be appreciated.
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> * HARVIR SINGH <http://www.harvir007.webs.com>*
> * P. Scientist-C
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> INDIA
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